Beyond the WKB approximation in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics
Beyond the WKB approximation in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics
复制标题
超越 PT 对称量子力学中的 WKB 近似
DOI:
10.1088/0305-4470/38/6/010
复制
发表时间:
2004
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
R. Tateo
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
P. Dorey;A. Millican;R. Tateo
The mergings of energy levels associated with the breaking of symmetry in the model of Bender and Boettcher, and in its generalization to incorporate a centrifugal term, are analysed in detail. Even though conventional WKB techniques fail, it is shown how the ODE/IM correspondence can be used to obtain a systematic approximation scheme which captures all previously observed features. Nonperturbative effects turn out to play a crucial role, governing the behaviour of almost all levels once the symmetry-breaking transition has been passed. In addition, a novel treatment of the radial Schrodinger equation is used to recover the values of local and non-local conserved charges in the related integrable quantum field theories, without any need for resummation even when the angular momentum is nonzero.