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Scattering off PT -symmetric upside-down potentials

Authors :
Carl M. Bender
Mariagiovanna Gianfreda
Source :
Physical Review A. 98
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
American Physical Society (APS), 2018.

Abstract

The upside-down $-x^4$, $-x^6$, and $-x^8$ potentials with appropriate PT-symmetric boundary conditions have real, positive, and discrete quantum-mechanical spectra. This paper proposes a straightforward macroscopic quantum-mechanical scattering experiment in which one can observe and measure these bound-state energies directly.<br />Comment: 5 pages, 13 figures

Details

ISSN :
24699934 and 24699926
Volume :
98
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review A
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....06c1bd570bc09f656034aa2921b86571
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.052118