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Algebraic treatment of non-Hermitian quadratic Hamiltonians

Quantum Physics 2020-09-04 v5

Abstract

We generalize a recently proposed algebraic method in order to treat non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. The approach is applied to several quadratic Hamiltonians studied earlier by other authors. Instead of solving the Schr\"odinger equation we simply obtain the eigenvalues of a suitable matrix representation of the operator. We take into account the existence of unitary and antiunitary symmetries in the quantum-mechanical problem.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01662,
  title  = {Algebraic treatment of non-Hermitian quadratic Hamiltonians},
  author = {Francisco M. Fernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01662},
  year   = {2020}
}