Handedness of complex PT-symmetric potential barriers

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2004.03.002zbMath1123.81417arXivquant-ph/0312151OpenAlexW2057928712MaRDI QIDQ2462795

Zafar Ahmed

Publication date: 4 December 2007

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312151

zbMATH Keywords

PT-symmetrycomplex (optical) potentialscomplex Scarf potentialSchrödinger transmission/reflection (scattering)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15)

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