Perfectly invisible P T $$ \mathcal{P}\mathcal{T} $$ -symmetric zero-gap systems, conformal field theoretical kinks, and exotic nonlinear supersymmetry
Juan Guilarte (0000 0001 2180 1817, Departamento de Física Fundamental and IUFFyM, Universidad de Salamanca, Casas del Parque II, Salamanca, E-37008, Spain); Mikhail Plyushchay (0000 0001 2191 5013, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Casilla 307, Santiago 2, Chile)
We investigate a special class of the P T $$ \mathcal{P}\mathcal{T} $$ -symmetric quantum models being perfectly invisible zero-gap systems with a unique bound state at the very edge of continuous spectrum of scattering states. The family includes the P T $$ \mathcal{P}\mathcal{T} $$ -regularized two particle Calogero systems (conformal quantum mechanics models of de Alfaro-Fubini-Furlan) and their rational extensions whose potentials satisfy equations of the KdV hierarchy and exhibit, particularly, a behaviour typical for extreme waves. We show that the two simplest Hamiltonians from the Calogero subfamily determine the fluctuation spectra around the P T $$ \mathcal{P}\mathcal{T} $$ -regularized kinks arising as traveling waves in the field-theoretical Liouville and SU(3) conformal Toda systems. Peculiar properties of the quantum systems are reflected in the associated exotic nonlinear supersymmetry in the unbroken or partially broken phases. The conventional N = 2 $$ \mathcal{N}=2 $$ supersymmetry is extended here to the N = 4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ nonlinear supersymmetry that involves two bosonic generators composed from Lax-Novikov integrals of the subsystems, one of which is the central charge of the superalgebra. Jordan states are shown to play an essential role in the construction.