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Fock Space Representations for Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

The requirement of Hermiticity of a Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonian, for the description of physical processes with real eigenvalues which has been challenged notably by Carl Bender, is examined for the case of a Fock space Hamilitonian which is bilinear in two creation and destruction operators. An interpretation of this model as a Schr\"odinger operator leads to an identification of the Hermitian form of the Hamiltonian as the Landau model of a charged particle in a plane, interacting with a constant magnetic field at right angles to the plane. When the parameters of the Hamiltonian are suitably adjusted to make it non-Hermitian, the model represents two harmonic oscillators at right angles interacting with a constant magnetic field in the third direction, but with a pure imaginary coupling, and real energy eigenvalues. It is now PT{\cal PT} symmetric. Multiparticle states are investigated.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412148,
  title  = {Fock Space Representations for Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians},
  author = {David B. Fairlie and Jean Nuyts},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412148},
  year   = {2009}
}

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