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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.02005,
title = {Non self-adjoint Hamiltonians with complex eigenvalues},
author = {Fabio Bagarello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02005},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
in press in Journal of Physics A