Eigenvalue-by-Eigenvalue Comparison of a Sierra--Rodr\'iguez-Laguna-Type Spectrum with the Riemann Zeros

Abstract:We study the self-adjoint extension of the Sierra--Rodríguez-Laguna (SR) $H=xp$-type Hamiltonian $\widehat H_{SR}$. Its discrete spectrum is fixed by the equation $\mathrm{Re}\!\left[e^{-i\theta/2}K_{1/2+iE/2}(2\pi)\right]=0$. We solve this equation numerically for $\theta=1.417\pi$ and obtain the first 606 eigenvalues $E_n$. We compare them, one by one, with the ordinates $\gamma_n$ of the first 606 nontrivial zeros of the Riemann zeta function. Using the steepest-descent (saddle-point) method for the modified Bessel function, together with the Riemann--von Mangoldt formula, we derive a closed-form prediction for $E_n-\gamma_n$ in terms of the Lambert-$W$ function. We show that our leading-order phase for $K_{1/2+iE/2}(2\pi)$ matches exactly a known, rigorous asymptotic formula for modified Bessel functions of large imaginary order. This rules out the Bessel function as the source of a numerical mismatch we found earlier. We then trace that mismatch to how the counting function $N(T)$ must be treated exactly at $T=\gamma_n$: the usual midpoint convention for the fluctuating term $S(T)$ shifts the effective quantum number by $1/2$. With this fix, $\gamma_n\sim g(n-11/8)$ instead of $g(n-7/8)$, and the new prediction for $E_n-\gamma_n$ matches, to within $0.03\%$, the value we measure directly from the first $10^5$ tabulated zeta zeros (A.~Odlyzko).

arXiv:2609.23353 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2609.23353v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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