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Linking ladder operators for the Rosen-Morse and Pöschl-Teller systems

by Simon Garneau-Desroches, Véronique Hussin

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Simon Garneau-Desroches
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Preprint Link: scipost_202212_00014v2  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2023-08-11
Date submitted: 2023-03-22 02:31
Submitted by: Garneau-Desroches, Simon
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: 34th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (GROUP2022)
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Quantum Physics
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

An analysis of the realizations of the ladder operators for the Rosen-Morse and Pöschl- Teller quantum systems is carried out. The failure of the algebraic method of construction in the general Rosen-Morse case is exposed and explained. We present the reduction of a recently obtained set of (2n ± 1)-th-order Rosen-Morse ladder operators to the usual first-order realization for the Pöschl-Teller case known in the literature.

Author comments upon resubmission

We wish to thank the referee(s) for reviewing our paper and for the useful comments provided in the initial decision report. The remarks brought up in the report have contributed to the completeness of the paper and have engendered discussions that will influence future works. It is after studying the proposed references that we address this reply to inform the referees on the modifications made in the paper.

Both points brought by the referee(s) have been implemented in the paper as a paragraph in the introduction. The reason for this choice is to inform the reader on topics closely related to that discussed the present work and to point toward appropriate references. It is precisely the third paragraph of Section 1 that contains the comments.

A comment on the constructions of ladder operators in the case of rationally extended solvable systems was formulated. We chose to explicitly mention the rational extension of the harmonic oscillator since it is a very well documented rational extension for which ladder operators have been studied at different orders of SUSY transformations. We referred to the references 10.1088/1751-8121/aa739b and 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.026017 suggested in the review. We also took the opportunity to mention the ladder operators study on the rational extensions of both the trigonometric and hyperbolic Rosen-Morse systems performed in one of our previous papers: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac2549 .

Then, one comment was made regarding the reflectionless cases of the Pöschl-Teller system studied in our paper. We mentioned the highlighted non-linear supersymmetry it has shown to exhibit and we emphasized the relevance of this system in the field of soliton physics. We joined to that comment two of the references pointed by the referee(s): 10.1016/j.aop.2006.12.002 and 10.1016/j.aop.2009.01.009 .

Best regards,
The authors

List of changes

- The points brought by the referee(s) have been implemented as the third paragraph of Section 1.

- A comment on the constructions of ladder operators in the case of rationally extended solvable systems was formulated.

- The well documented rational extension of the harmonic oscillator was explicitly mentioned together with the references 10.1088/1751-8121/aa739b and 10.1103/PhysRevD.98.026017

- The rational ladder operators for the Rosen-Morse systems from a previous work from the authors were mentioned.

- The non-linear supersymmetry exhibited by the reflectionless Pöschl-Teller systems was mention as the paper discusses both the Pöschl-Teller system and supersymmetric quantum mechanics. References 10.1016/j.aop.2006.12.002 and 10.1016/j.aop.2009.01.009 .

- Importance of this system in the study of soliton physics was emphasized.

Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 14, 026 (2023)

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