Level crossings in complex two-dimensional potentials

 

QING-HAI WANG

Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542

E-mail: phywq@nus.edu.sg

 

Abstract. Two-dimensional  PT-symmetric quantum-mechanical

systems with the complex cubic potential $V_{12}=x^2+y^2+igxy^2$ and

the complex H\'enon--Heiles potential $V_{\rm

HH}=x^2+y^2+ig(xy^2-x^3/3)$ are investigated. Using numerical and

perturbative methods, energy spectra are obtained to high levels.

Although both potentials respect the PT symmetry, the

complex energy eigenvalues appear when level crossing happens

between same parity eigenstates.

 

Keywords. Non-Hermitian; ${\cal PT}$ symmetry; two-dimensional potentials.

 

PACS Nos 03.65.Ge; 02.30.Lt; 02.60.Lj