Analytical energy spectrum for hybrid mechanical systems
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2014
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Zhong, Honghua
Xie, Qiongtao
Guan, Xi-Wen
Batchelor, Murray
Gao, Kelin
Lee, C.-H.
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IOP Electronic Journals
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We investigate the energy spectrum for hybrid mechanical systems described by non-parity-symmetric quantum Rabi models. A set of analytical solutions in terms of the confluent Heun functions and their analytical energy spectrum is obtained. The analytical energy spectrum includes regular and exceptional parts, which are both confirmed by direct numerical simulation. The regular part is determined by the zeros of the Wronskian for a pair of analytical solutions. The exceptional part is relevant to the isolated exact solutions and its energy eigenvalues are obtained by analyzing the truncation conditions for the confluent Heun functions. By analyzing the energy eigenvalues for exceptional points, we obtain the analytical conditions for the energy-level crossings, which correspond to two-fold energy degeneracy.
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Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
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