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Solvable non-Hermitian discrete square well with closed-form physical inner product

Mathematical Physics 2014-10-13 v1 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

A non-Hermitian NN-level quantum model with two free real parameters is proposed in which the bound-state energies are given as roots of an elementary trigonometric expression and in which they are, in a physical domain of parameters, all real. The wave function components are expressed as closed-form superpositions of two Chebyshev polynomials. In any eligible physical Hilbert space of finite dimension N<N < \infty our model is constructed as unitary with respect to an underlying Hilbert-space metric ΘI\Theta \neq I. The simplest version of the latter metric is finally constructed, at any dimension N=2,3,N=2,3,\ldots, in closed form. This version of the model may be perceived as an exactly solvable NN-site lattice analogue of the N=N=\infty square well with complex Robin-type boundary conditions. At any N<N<\infty our closed-form metric becomes trivial (i.e., equal to the most common Dirac's metric Θ(Dirac)=I\Theta^{(Dirac)}=I) at the special, Hermitian-Hamiltonian-limit parameters.

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@article{arxiv.1409.3788,
  title  = {Solvable non-Hermitian discrete square well with closed-form physical inner product},
  author = {Miloslav Znojil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.3788},
  year   = {2014}
}

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23 pp., 8 figures