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PT Symmetric, Hermitian and P-Self-Adjoint Operators Related to Potentials in PT Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Physics 2015-05-30 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the recent years a generalization H=p2+x2(ix)ϵH=p^2 +x^2(ix)^\epsilon of the harmonic oscillator using a complex deformation was investigated, where \epsilon\ is a real parameter. Here, we will consider the most simple case: \epsilon even and x real. We will give a complete characterization of three different classes of operators associated with the differential expression H: The class of all self-adjoint (Hermitian) operators, the class of all PT symmetric operators and the class of all P-self-adjoint operators. Surprisingly, some of the PT symmetric operators associated to this expression have no resolvent set.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5923,
  title  = {PT Symmetric, Hermitian and P-Self-Adjoint Operators Related to Potentials in PT Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {Tomas Azizov and Carsten Trunk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5923},
  year   = {2015}
}