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Periodic potentials and supersymmetry

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Avinash Khare1 and Uday Sukhatme2

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We review the current status of one-dimensional periodic potentials and also present several new results. It is shown that using the formalism of supersymmetric quantum mechanics, one can considerably enlarge the limited class of analytically solvable one-dimensional periodic potentials. Further, using the Landen transformations as well as cyclic identities for Jacobi elliptic functions discovered by us recently, it is shown that a linear superposition of Lamé (as well as associated Lamé) potentials is also analytically solvable. Finally, using anti-isospectral transformations, we also obtain a class of analytically solvable, complex, PT-invariant, periodic potentials having real band spectra.


PACS

03.65.Ge Solutions of wave equations: bound states

02.30.Jr Partial differential equations

02.30.Sa Functional analysis

MSC

81Q60 Supersymmetric quantum mechanics

35J45 General theory of elliptic systems of PDE

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 43 (29 October 2004)

Received 20 February 2004, in final form 14 May 2004

Published 14 October 2004



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