Effects of complex parameters on classical trajectories of Hamiltonian systems

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

Anderson et al\textit{et al} have shown that for complex energies, the classical trajectories of real\textit{real} quartic potentials are closed and periodic only on a discrete set of eigencurves. Moreover, recently it was revealed that, when time is complex tt (t=treiθτ),(t=t_{r}e^{iθ_{τ}}), certain real hermitian systems possess close periodic trajectories only for a discrete set of values of θτθ_{τ}. On the other hand it is generally true that even for real energies, classical trajectories of non PT\mathcal{PT}- symmetric Hamiltonians with complex parameters are mostly non-periodic and open. In this paper we show that for given real energy, the classical trajectories of complex\textit{complex} quartic Hamiltonians H=p2+ax4+bxkH=p^{2}+ax^{4}+bx^{k}, (where aa is real, bb is complex and k=1k=1 oror 22) are closed and periodic only for a discrete set of parameter curves in the complex bb-plane. It was further found that given complex parameter bb, the classical trajectories are periodic for a discrete set of real energies (i.e. classical energy get discretized or quantized by imposing the condition that trajectories are periodic and closed). Moreover, we show that for real and positive energies (continuous), the classical trajectories of complex\textit{complex} Hamiltonian H=p2+μx4,(μ=μreiθ)H=p^{2}+μx^{4}, (μ=μ_{r}e^{iθ}) are periodic when θ=4tan−1[(n/(2m+n))]θ=4 tan^{-1}[(n/(2m+n))] for ∀\forall n n and m∈Zm\in \mathbb{Z}.

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