Point Interactions: PT-Hermiticity and Reality of the Spectrum

Abstract

General point interactions for the second derivative operator in one dimension are studied. In particular, $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-self-adjoint point interactions with the support at the origin and at points $\pm l$ are considered. The spectrum of such non-Hermitian operators is investigated and conditions when the spectrum is pure real are presented. The results are compared with those for standard self-adjoint point interactions.

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