Thursday, February 14, 2019

quantum mechanics - Interpreting Argyres' spectrum of spontaneously broken SUSY QM


I can't understand the spectrum in the figure on page 19 from Argyres' lecture notes on supersymmetry: http://www.physics.uc.edu/~argyres/661/susy1996.pdf


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Argyres is considering a supersymmetric quantum mechanical system of an anharmonic oscillator, with a superpotential Wx3. The plots of W and V make perfect sense. What doesn't make sense is the spectrum on the right.


Why are there both x's and o's over each Hamiltonian H1 and H2?? I thought H1 is exclusively the spin-up Hamiltonian and H2 is exclusively the spin-down Hamiltonian, so therefore the spectrum consist of a column of just x's over H1 and a column just of o's over H2.


Additional request: Would someone please write down the form of H1 and H2 in their answer, so to make sure we're on the same page? A graph of the the respective potentials V1 and V2 would be even better.


Take a look at the much more sensible figure on page 7. This is something that I can comprehend.


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