Scattering off PT-symmetric upside-down potentials
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.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2016
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1607.06950
- Bibcode:
- 2016arXiv160706950B
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Mathematical Physics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 13 figures