${\mathcal{CPT}}$-CONSERVING HAMILTONIANS AND THEIR NONLINEAR SUPERSYMMETRIZATION USING DIFFERENTIAL CHARGE-OPERATORS ${\mathcal C}$

Abstract

A brief overview is given of recent developments and fresh ideas at the intersection of [Formula: see text]- and/or [Formula: see text]-symmetric quantum mechanics with supersymmetric quantum mechanics (SUSY QM). Within the framework of the resulting supersymmetric version of [Formula: see text]-symmetric quantum mechanics we study the consequences of the assumption that the "charge" operator [Formula: see text] is represented in a differential-operator form of the second or higher order. Besides the freedom allowed by the Hermiticity constraint for the operator [Formula: see text], encouraging results are obtained in the second-order case. In particular, the integrability of intertwining relations proves to match the closure of our nonlinear (viz., polynomial) SUSY algebra. In a particular illustration, our form of [Formula: see text]-symmetric SUSY QM leads to a new class of non-Hermitian polynomial oscillators with real spectrum which turn out to be [Formula: see text]-asymmetric.