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We develop a new method for finding the quantum probability density of arrival at the detector. The evolution of the quantum state restricted to the region outside of the detector is described by a restricted Hamiltonian that contains a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-15 Tajron Jurić , Hrvoje Nikolić

In the Feshbach projection operator (FPO) formalism the whole function space is divided into two subspaces. One of them contains the wave functions localized in a certain finite region while the continuum of extended scattering wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 Ingrid Rotter

A non-Hermitian Hamiltonian has a real positive spectrum and exhibits unitary time evolution if the Hamiltonian possesses an unbroken PT (space-time reflection) symmetry. The proof of unitarity requires the construction of a linear operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Carl M. Bender , Sebastian F. Brandt , Jun-Hua Chen , Qinghai Wang

We present a quantum averaging theory (QAT) for analytically modeling unitary gate dynamics in driven quantum systems beyond the rotating-wave approximation. QAT addresses the simultaneous presence of distinct timescales by generating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Kristian D. Barajas , Wesley C. Campbell

It is shown that for a given Hermitian Hamiltonian possessing supersymmetry, there is alwayas a non-hermitian Jaynes-Cummings-type Hamiltonian(JCTH) admitting entirely real spectra. The parent supersymmetric Hamiltonian and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Pijush K. Ghosh

Hamiltonian mechanics describes the evolution of a system through its Hamiltonian. The Hamiltonian typically also represents the energy observable, a Noether-conserved quantity associated with the time-invariance of the law of evolution. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Libo Jiang , Daniel R. Terno , Oscar Dahlsten

The applicability of the optical theorem in the models with the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is studied. By way of example we consider the $n\bar{n}$ transition in a medium followed by annihilation. It is shown that an application of optical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 Valeriy Nazaruk

Some results are reviewed and developments are presented on the study of Time in quantum mechanics as an observable, canonically conjugate to energy. Operators for the observable Time are investigated in particle and photon quantum theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. S. Olkhovsky , E. Recami

This work concerns a study of the quantum mechanical extension of the work of Horwitz et al. [1] on the stability of classical Hamiltonian systems by geometrical methods. Simulations are carried out for several important examples, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 Gil Elgressy , Lawrence Horwitz

We construct a discrete non-hermitean momentum operator, which implements faithfully the non self-adjoint nature of momentum for a particle in a box. Its eigenfunctions are strictly limited to the interior of the box in the continuum limit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-21 Seyong Kim , Alexander Rothkopf

A given Hamiltonian matrix H with real spectrum is assumed tridiagonal and non-Hermitian. Its possible Hermitizations via an amended, ad hoc inner-product metric are studied. Under certain reasonable assumptions, all of these metrics are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 Miloslav Znojil

While fundamental physically realistic Hamiltonians should be invariant under time reversal, time asymmetric Hamiltonians can occur as mathematical possibilities or effective Hamiltonians. Here, we study conditions under which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-01 Julian Schmidt , Roderich Tumulka

Pseudo-hermitian matrices are matrices hermitian with respect to an indefinite metric. They can be thought of as the truncation of pseudo-hermitian operators, defined over some Krein space, together with the associated metric, to a finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Joshua Feinberg , Roman Riser

PT-symmetric quantum theory was originally proposed with the aim of extending standard quantum theory by relaxing the Hermiticity constraint on Hamiltonians. However, no such extension has been formulated that consistently describes states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Abhijeet Alase , Salini Karuvade , Carlo Maria Scandolo

We give an exact solution to the nonlinear optimization problem of approximating a Hermitian matrix by positive semi-definite matrices. Our algorithm was then used to judge whether a quantum state is entangled or not. We show that the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 Xiaofen Huang , Naihuan Jing

A quantum system with variables in Z(d) is considered. Coherent density matrices and coherent projectors of rank n are introduced, and their properties (e.g., the resolution of the identity) are dis- cussed. Cooperative game theory and in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 A. Vourdas

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

Recent work has shown that it can be advantageous to implement a composite channel that partitions the Hamiltonian $H$ for a given simulation problem into subsets $A$ and $B$ such that $H=A+B$, where the terms in $A$ are simulated with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-30 Matthew Pocrnic , Matthew Hagan , Juan Carrasquilla , Dvira Segal , Nathan Wiebe

Simulating the time evolution of a physical system at quantum mechanical levels of detail -- known as Hamiltonian Simulation (HS) -- is an important and interesting problem across physics and chemistry. For this task, algorithms that run on…

Effective interaction operators usually act on a restricted model space and give the same energies (for Hamiltonian) and matrix elements (for transition operators etc.) as those of the original operators between the corresponding true…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang-Kui Duan , Yungui Gong , Hui-Ning Dong , Michael F. Reid