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A possible method to investigate non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is suggested through finding a Hermitian operator $\eta_+$ and defining the annihilation and creation operators to be $\eta_+$-pseudo-Hermitian adjoint to each other. The operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 Jun-Qing Li , Yan-Gang Miao , Zhao Xue

We have studied the underlying algebraic structure of the anharmonic oscillator by using the variational perturbation theory. To the first order of the variational perturbation, the Hamiltonian is found to be factorized into a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Dongsu Bak , Sang Pyo Kim , Sung Ku Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh , Jae Hyung Yee

We discuss some features of non-self-adjoint Hamiltonians with real discrete simple spectrum under the assumption that the eigenvectors form a Riesz basis of Hilbert space. Among other things, {we give conditions under which these…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Bagarello , A. Inoue , C. Trapani

A powerful method for calculating the eigenvalues of a Hamiltonian operator consists of converting the energy eigenvalue equation into a matrix equation by means of an appropriate basis set of functions. The convergence of the method can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Amore , Alfredo Aranda , Francisco Fernandez , Hugh Jones

We study a general one-mode non-Hermitian quadratic Hamiltonian that does not exhibit $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry. By means of an algebraic method we determine the conditions for the existence of real eigenvalues as well as the location of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Francisco M. Fernández

A linear quantum harmonic oscillator factors into one dimensional oscillators and can be solved using creation and annihilation operators. We consider a spherical analogue. This analogue does not factor. The two dimensional case is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Van Higgs , Doug Pickrell

We consider a realization of fractional supersymmetric of quantum mechanics of order $r$, where the Hamiltonian and supercharges involve reflection operators. It is shown that the Hamiltonian has $r$-fold degenerate spectrum and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-27 F. Bouzeffour , M. Garayev

Interesting nonsingular parametric oscillators which are Darboux related to the classical harmonic oscillator and have periodic dissipative/gain features are identified through a modified factorization method. The same method is applied to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 H. C. Rosu , O. Cornejo-Perez , P. Chen

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 David B. Fairlie , Jean Nuyts

Parameter dependent non-Hermitian quantum systems typically not only possess eigenvalue degeneracies, but also degeneracies of the corresponding eigenfunctions at exceptional points. While the effect of two coalescing eigenfunctions on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-21 Gilles Demange , Eva-Maria Graefe

We in this paper study the hermiticity of Hamiltonian and energy spectrum for the SU(1; 1) systems. The Hermitian Hamiltonian can possess imaginary eigenvalues in contrast with the common belief that hermiticity is a suffcient condition for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Ni Liu , Meng Luo , J. -Q. Liang

We treat the ultraviolet problem for polaron-type models in nonrelativistic quantum field theory. Assuming that the dispersion relations of particles and the field have the same growth at infinity, we cover all subcritical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Jonas Lampart

This paper builds on our earlier proposal for construction of a positive inner product for pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians and we give several examples to clarify our method. We show through the example of the harmonic oscillator how our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Ashok Das , L. Greenwood

In this paper, a non-trivial system governed by a continuum PT-symmetric Hamiltonian is discussed. We show that this Hamiltonian is iso-spectral to the simple harmonic oscillator. We find its eigenfunctions and the path in the complex plane…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Lawrence Mead , David Garfinkle , Sungwook Lee

A simple version of the q-deformed calculus is used to generate a pair of q-nonlocal, second-order difference operators by means of deformed counterparts of Darboux intertwining operators for zero factorization energy. These deformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. Rosu

Recently, much research has been carried out on Hamiltonians that are not Hermitian but are symmetric under space-time reflection, that is, Hamiltonians that exhibit PT symmetry. Investigations of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston , Bernhard K. Meister

The energy spectra of two different quantum systems are paired through supersymmetric algorithms. One of the systems is Hermitian and the other is characterized by a complex-valued potential, both of them with only real eigenvalues in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Kevin Zelaya , Sara Cruz y Cruz , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

We provide a reviewlike introduction into the quantum mechanical formalism related to non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with real eigenvalues. Starting with the time-independent framework we explain how to determine an appropriate domain of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Andreas Fring

Certain Hamiltonians based on two coupled quantum mechanical spins exhibit degenerate eigenvalues despite having no obvious non-abelian symmetries. Operators acting to permute the degenerate states do not have a simple form when expressed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Steven S. Gubser , Robert K. Bradley

A non-Hermitian generalized oscillator model, generally known as the Swanson model, has been studied in the framework of R-deformed Heisenberg algebra. The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is diagonalized by generalized Bogoliubov transformation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rajkumar Roychoudhury , Barnana Roy , Partha Pratim Dube