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Non self-adjoint Hamiltonians with complex eigenvalues

Quantum Physics 2016-05-25 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Motivated by what one observes dealing with PT-symmetric quantum mechanics, we discuss what happens if a physical system is driven by a diagonalizable Hamiltonian with not all real eigenvalues. In particular, we consider the functional structure related to systems living in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and we show that certain intertwining relations can be deduced also in this case if we introduce suitable antilinear operators. We also analyze a simple model, computing the transition probabilities in the broken and in the unbroken regime.

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@article{arxiv.1603.02005,
  title  = {Non self-adjoint Hamiltonians with complex eigenvalues},
  author = {Fabio Bagarello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02005},
  year   = {2016}
}

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in press in Journal of Physics A

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