PT-symmetric knotting of coordinates: a new, topological mechanism of quantum confinement

2008/01/03 by Znojil, Miloslav
#FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0801.0517

Abstract

We construct an exactly solvable PT-symmetric example of Sturmian bound states which exist in the absence of any confining potential. Their origin is purely topological -- these states live on certain nontrivial contours of complex coordinates.

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