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Conditionally Exactly Solvable Potentials and Supersymmetric Transformations
A general procedure is presented to construct conditionally solvable (CES)
potentials using the techniques of supersymmetric quantum mechanics.The method
is illustrated with potentials related to the harmonic oscillator
problem.Besides recovering known results,new CES potentials are also obtained
within the framework of this general approach.The conditions under which this
method leads to CES potentials are also discussed.Comment: 10 pages,Reference adde
PT symmetry breaking and explicit expressions for the pseudo-norm in the Scarf II potential
Closed expressions are derived for the pseudo-norm, norm and orthogonality
relations for arbitrary bound states of the PT symmetric and the Hermitian
Scarf II potential for the first time. The pseudo-norm is found to have
indefinite sign in general. Some aspects of the spontaneous breakdown of PT
symmetry are analysed.Comment: 16 pages; to appear in Phys. lett.
Chiral Magnetic Effect in the Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism
In this paper the emergence of the Chiral Magnetic Effect (CME) and the
related anomalous current is investigated using the real time
Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism. This method is widely used for describing
strong field physics and QED vacuum tunneling phenomena as well as pair
production in heavy-ion collisions. We extend earlier investigations of the CME
in constant flux tube configuration by considering time dependent fields. In
this model we can follow the formation of axial charge separation, formation of
axial current and then the emergence of the anomalous electric current.
Qualitative results are shown for special field configurations that help to
interpret the predictions of CME related effects in heavy-ion collisions at the
RHIC Beam Energy Scan program.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
Scattering in the PT-symmetric Coulomb potential
Scattering on the -symmetric Coulomb potential is studied along a
U-shaped trajectory circumventing the origin in the complex plane from
below. This trajectory reflects symmetry, sets the appropriate
boundary conditions for bound states and also allows the restoration of the
correct sign of the energy eigenvalues. Scattering states are composed from the
two linearly independent solutions valid for non-integer values of the 2L
parameter, which would correspond to the angular momentum in the usual
Hermitian setting. Transmission and reflection coefficients are written in
closed analytic form and it is shown that similarly to other -symmetric scattering systems the latter exhibit handedness effect.
Bound-state energies are recovered from the poles of the transmission
coefficients.Comment: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 42 (2009) to
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Comment on `Supersymmetry, PT-symmetry and spectral bifurcation'
We demonstrate that the recent paper by Abhinav and Panigrahi entitled
`Supersymmetry, PT-symmetry and spectral bifurcation' [Ann.\ Phys.\ 325 (2010)
1198], which considers two different types of superpotentials for the
PT-symmetric complexified Scarf II potential, fails to take into account the
invariance under the exchange of its coupling parameters. As a result, they
miss the important point that for unbroken PT-symmetry this potential indeed
has two series of real energy eigenvalues, to which one can associate two
different superpotentials. This fact was first pointed out by the present
authors during the study of complex potentials having a complex
potential algebra.Comment: 6 pages, no figure, published versio
Exact solutions of the sextic oscillator from the bi-confluent Heun equation
The sextic oscillator is discussed as a potential obtained from the
bi-confluent Heun equation after a suitable variable transformation. Following
earlier results, the solutions of this differential equation are expressed as a
series expansion of Hermite functions with shifted and scaled arguments. The
expansion coefficients are obtained from a three-term recurrence relation. It
is shown that this construction leads to the known quasi-exactly solvable form
of the sextic oscillator when some parameters are chosen in a specific way. By
forcing the termination of the recurrence relation, the Hermite functions turn
into Hermite polynomials with shifted arguments, and, at the same time, a
polynomial expression is obtained for one of the parameters, the roots of which
supply the energy eigenvalues. With the choice the quartic potential
term is cancelled, leading to the {\it reduced} sextic oscillator. It was found
that the expressions for the energy eigenvalues and the corresponding wave
functions of this potential agree with those obtained from the quasi-exactly
solvable formalism. Possible generalizations of the method are also presented
Schroedinger equations with indefinite effective mass
The consistency of the concept of quantum (quasi)particles possessing
effective mass which is both position- and excitation-dependent is analyzed via
simplified models. It is shown that the system may be stable even when the
effective mass m=m(x,E) itself acquires negative values in a limited range of
coordinates x and energies E.Comment: 17 pp., 3 fig
Simulation of Pair Production in Extreme Strong EM Fields
In this article we review a theoretical framework for pair production from
strong external electromagnetic fields. We propose a numerical method to solve
the resulting equations of motion and present results for both cases of
spatially homogeneous and inhomogeneous electric fields.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
The production of charm mesons from quark matter at CERN SPS and RHIC
We study the production of charm mesons and other charm baryons from quark
matter at CERN SPS and RHIC energies. Using quark coalescence models as
hadronization mechanism, we predict particle ratios, absolute yields and
transverse momentum spectra.Comment: 4 pages in Latex, 2 PS figure, to be published in the proceedings of
the SQM'2000 Conference, Berkeley, CA, July 20-25, 2000. Submitted to J.
Phys.
The Nuclear Modification Factor at Large Rapidities
RHIC data on high- hadron production display strong suppression in a
wide rapidity region, indicating strong induced energy loss for both
transversally and longitudinally traveling partons. We investigate the
interplay of energy loss and rapidity dependence in a perturbative QCD improved
parton model, and estimate the opacity of the produced hot matter in
collisions at energies GeV and 63 GeV at different
rapidity values. Direction-dependent suppression offers the possibility to
study the geometry of the hot matter.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to the Poster Proceedings of the
Quark Matter 2005 Conference. To be published in Nuclear Physics
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