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The characteristic anti-linear (parity/time reversal, PT) symmetry of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with real energies is presented as a source of two new forms of solvability of Schr\"{o}dinger's bound-state problems. In detail we describe…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil

For a closed manifold equipped with a Riemannian metric, a triangulation, a representation of its fundamental group on an Hilbert module of finite type (over of finite von Neumann algebra), and a Hermitian structure on the flat bundle…

dg-ga · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Burghelea , L. Friedlander , T. Kappeler

Non-Hermiticity in quantum Hamiltonians leads to nonunitary time evolution and possibly complex energy eigenvalues, which can lead to a rich phenomenology with no Hermitian counterpart. In this work, we study the dynamics of an exactly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Karin Sim , Nicolò Defenu , Paolo Molignini , R. Chitra

The quantum harmonic oscillator with parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, obtained from the ordinary (Hermitian) quantum harmonic oscillator by an imaginary displacement of the spatial coordinate, provides an important and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Stefano Longhi

The non-Hermitian quadratic oscillator studied by Swanson is one of the popular $PT$-symmetric model systems. Here a full classical description of its dynamics is derived using recently developed metriplectic flow equations, which combine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-06 Eva-Maria Graefe , Hans Jürgen Korsch , Alexander Rush , Roman Schubert

The original Jaynes-Cummings model is described by a Hamiltonian which is exactly solvable. Here we extend this model by several types of interactions leading to a nonhermitian operator which doesn't satisfy the physical condition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Brihaye , A. Nininahazwe

In this work, we investigate a very important but unstressed result in the work of Carl M. Bender, Jun-Hua Chen, and Kimball A. Milton ( J.Phys.A39:1657-1668, 2006). In this article, Bender \textit{et.al} have calculated the vacuum energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-11 Abouzeid. M. Shalaby

We extend the definition of generalized parity $P$, charge-conjugation $C$ and time-reversal $T$ operators to nondiagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians, and we use these generalized operators to describe the full set of symmetries of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Blasi , G. Scolarici , L. Solombrino

In this paper we analyze a recently proposed approach for the construction of antisymmetric functions for atomic and molecular systems. It is based on the assumption that the main problems with Hartree-Fock wavefunctions stem from their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Francisco M. Fernández

A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra, including Jordan normal form, biorthogonality, exceptional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Yuto Ashida , Zongping Gong , Masahito Ueda

Non-Hermitian dynamics in quantum systems have unveiled novel phenomena, yet the implementation of valid non-Hermitian quantum measurement remains a challenge, because a universal quantum projective mechanism on the complete but skewed…

A new deformed canonical commutation relation, generalizing various known deformations, is defined together with its structure function of deformation. Then, the related irreducible representations are characterized and classified. Finally,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Baloitcha , M. N. Hounkonnou , E. B. Ngompe Nkouankam

The uncertainty relation is one of the key ingredients of quantum theory. Despite the great efforts devoted to this subject, most of the variance-based uncertainty relations are state-dependent and suffering from the triviality problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Chen Qian , Jun-Li Li , Cong-Feng Qiao

A new family of non-Hermitian PT-symmetric quantum models is proposed in which the Hamiltonians $H=T+V$ are finite-dimensional and in which the dynamical-input potential $V$ is multi-parametric and non-local. The choice is supported by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-24 Miloslav Znojil

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

Using Jakobsen theorems, unitarizability in Hermitian Symmetric Spaces is discussed. The set of all missing highest weights is explicitly calculated and the construction of their corresponding highest weights vectors is studied.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Garcia-Escudero , M. Lorente

We study complex potentials and related non-diagonalizable Hamiltonians with special emphasis on formal definitions of associated functions and Jordan cells. The nonlinear SUSY for complex potentials is considered and the theorems…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Andrianov , F. Cannata , A. V. Sokolov

The physical aspects of partially coherent radiation interacting with deterministic non-Hermitian periodic materials remain largely unexplored in the statistical optics literature. Here, we consider the scattering of partially coherent…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Paulo A. Brandão , S. B. Cavalcanti

Searching for non-Hermitian (parity-time)$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonians \cite{bender} with real spectra has been acquiring much interest for fourteen years. In this article, we have introduced a $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetric non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Özlem Yeşiltaş

In recent years, non-Hermitian quantum physics has gained a lot in popularity in the quantum optics and condensed matter communities in order to model quantum systems with varying symmetries. In this paper, we identify a non-standard inner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-09 Jake Southall , Daniel Hodgson , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige