Continuum analogs of excited-state quantum phase transitions

0543556 - ÚFP 2022 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Stránský, P. - Šindelka, Milan - Cejnar, P.
Continuum analogs of excited-state quantum phase transitions.
Physical Review A. Roč. 103, č. 6 (2021), č. článku 062207. ISSN 2469-9926. E-ISSN 2469-9934
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA20-21179S
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : level density * time * resonances * energies * widths * reflection * dynamics * systems
OECD category: Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)
Impact factor: 2.971, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.062207

Following our work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 020401 (2020)], we discuss a semiclassical description of one-dimensional quantum tunneling through multibarrier potentials in terms of complex time. We start by defining a complex-extended continuum level density of unbound systems and show its relation to a complex time shift of the transmitted wave. While the real part of the level density and time shift describes the passage of the particle through classically allowed coordinate regions, the imaginary part is connected with an instantonlike picture of the tunneling through forbidden regions. We describe singularities in the real and imaginary parts of the level density and time shift caused by stationary points of the tunneling potential, and show that they represent a dual extension of excited-state quantum phase transitions from bound to continuum systems. Using the complex scaling method, we numerically verify the predicted effects in several tunneling potentials.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0320747