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Cryptohermitian Picture of Scattering Using Quasilocal Metric Operators

Quantum Physics 2009-08-31 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

One-dimensional unitary scattering controlled by non-Hermitian (typically, PT{\cal PT}-symmetric) quantum Hamiltonians HHH\neq H^\dagger is considered. Treating these operators via Runge-Kutta approximation, our three-Hilbert-space formulation of quantum theory is reviewed as explaining the unitarity of scattering. Our recent paper on bound states [Znojil M., SIGMA 5 (2009), 001, 19 pages, arXiv:0901.0700] is complemented by the text on scattering. An elementary example illustrates the feasibility of the resulting innovative theoretical recipe. A new family of the so called quasilocal inner products in Hilbert space is found to exist. Constructively, these products are all described in terms of certain non-equivalent short-range metric operators ΘI\Theta\neq I represented, in Runge-Kutta approximation, by (2R1)(2R-1)-diagonal matrices.

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@article{arxiv.0908.4045,
  title  = {Cryptohermitian Picture of Scattering Using Quasilocal Metric Operators},
  author = {Miloslav Znojil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.4045},
  year   = {2009}
}