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G. Levai

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An An exactly solvable PT symmetric potential from the Natanzon class

The ${\cal PT}$ symmetric version of the generalised Ginocchio potential, a member of the general exactly solvable Natanzon potential class is analysed and its properties are compared with those of ${\cal PT}$ symmetric potentials from the more restricted shape-invariant class. It is found that the ${\cal PT}$ symmetric generalised Ginocchio potential has a number of properties in common with the latter potentials: it can be generated by an imaginary coordinate shift $x\to x+{\rm i}ε$; its states are characterised by the quasi-parity quantum number; the spontaneous breakdown of ${\cal PT}$ symmetry occurs at the same time for all the energy levels; and it has two supersymmetric partners which cease to be ${\cal PT}$ symmetric when the ${\cal PT}$ symmetry of the original potential is spontaneously broken.

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An exactly solvable PT symmetric potential from the Natanzon class

The ${\cal PT}$ symmetric version of the generalised Ginocchio potential, a member of the general exactly solvable Natanzon potential class is analysed and its properties are compared with those of ${\cal PT}$ symmetric potentials from the more restricted shape-invariant class. It is found that the ${\cal PT}$ symmetric generalised Ginocchio potential has a number of properties in common with the latter potentials: it can be generated by an imaginary coordinate shift $x\to x+{\rm i}ε$; its states are characterised by the quasi-parity quantum number; the spontaneous breakdown of ${\cal PT}$ symmetry occurs at the same time for all the energy levels; and it has two supersymmetric partners which cease to be ${\cal PT}$ symmetric when the ${\cal PT}$ symmetry of the original potential is spontaneously broken.

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The interplay of supersymmetry and PT symmetry in quantum mechanics: a case study for the Scarf II potential

Motivated by the duality of normalizable states and the presence of the quasi-parity quantum number q=+/-1 in PT symmetric (non-Hermitian) quantum mechanical potential models, the relation of PT symmetry and supersymmetry (SUSY) is studied. As an illustrative example the PT invariant version of the Scarf II potential is presented, and it is shown that the "bosonic" Hamiltonian has two different "fermionic" SUSY partner Hamiltonians (potentials) generated from the ground-state solutions with q=1 and q=-1. It is shown that the "fermionic" potentials cease to be PT invariant when the PT symmetry of the "bosonic" potential is spontaneously broken. A modified PT symmetry inspired SUSY construction is also discussed, in which the SUSY charge operators contain the antilinear operator T. It is shown that in this scheme the "fermionic" Hamitonians are just the complex conjugate of the original "fermionic" Hamiltonians, and thus possess the same energy eigenvalues.

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Conditions for complex spectra in a class of PT symmetric potentials

We study a wide class of solvable PT symmetric potentials in order to identify conditions under which these potentials have regular solutions with complex energy. Besides confirming previous findings for two potentials, most of our results are new. We demonstrate that the occurrence of conjugate energy pairs is a natural phenomenon for these potentials. We demonstrate that the present method can readily be extended to further potential classes.

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