Cylindrical first order superintegrability with complex magnetic fields

Abstract

This article is a contribution to the study of superintegrable Hamiltonian systems with magnetic fields on the three-dimensional Euclidean space ${\mathbb{E}}_3$ in quantum mechanics. In contrast to the growing interest in complex electromagnetic fields in the mathematical community following the experimental confirmation of its physical relevance [X. Peng et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015)], they were so far not addressed in the growing literature on superintegrability. Here we venture into this field by searching for additional first order integrals of motion to the integrable systems of cylindrical type. We find that already known systems can be extended into this realm by admitting complex coupling constants. In addition to them, we find one new system whose integrals of motion also feature complex constants. All these systems are multiseparable. Rigorous mathematical analysis of these systems is challenging due to the non-Hermitian setting and lost gauge invariance. We proceed formally and pose the resolution of these problems as an open challenge.

arXiv commentThe following article has been submitted to the Journal of Mathematical Physics

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