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${\cal C}$-operators were introduced as involution operators in non-Hermitian theories that commute with the time-independent Hamiltonians and the parity/time-reversal operator. Here we propose a definition for time-dependent ${\cal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Andreas Fring , Takanobu Taira , Rebecca Tenney

The observation of genuine quantum effects in systems governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians has been an outstanding challenge in the field. Here we simulate the evolution under such Hamiltonians in the quantum regime on a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Shruti Dogra , Artem A. Melnikov , Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

The question of controllability is investigated for a quantum control system in which the Hamiltonian operator components carry explicit time dependence which is not under the control of an external agent. We consider the general situation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Chunhua Lan , Tzyh-Jong Tarn , Quo-Shin Chi , John W. Clark

Bootstrapping in Quantum Mechanics uses positivity condition to derive the Eigenspectum. For non-hermitian systems usual positivity condition does not work. In this paper we define positivity condition for special class of non-hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sakil Khan , Yuv Agarwal , Devjyoti Tripathy , Sachin Jain

There is growing interest in viable quantum theories with PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, but a formulation of transition matrix elements consistent with positivity and perturbative unitarity has so far proved elusive. This Letter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Jean Alexandre , Madeleine Dale , John Ellis , Robert Mason , Peter Millington

This study investigates pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics, where the Hamiltonian satisfies a modified Hermiticity condition. We extend the uncertainty relation for such systems, demonstrating its equivalence to the standard Hermitian case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Boubakeur Khantoul , Bilel Hamil , Amar Benchikha

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

Standard quantum mechanics relies on two distinct dynamical principles: unitary evolution and collapse. A mathematically self-contained variational framework is presented that replaces this dualism with a single principle, in which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Lance H. Carter

We carry out an exact quantization of a PT symmetric (reversible) Li\'{e}nard type one dimensional nonlinear oscillator both semiclassically and quantum mechanically. The associated time independent classical Hamiltonian is of non-standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-07 V. Chithiika Ruby , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

A general strategy is provided to identify the most general metric for diagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian and anti-pseudo-Hermitian Hamilton operators represented by two-dimensional matrices. It is investigated how a permutation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Frieder Kleefeld

We derive universal entanglement entropy and Schmidt eigenvalue behaviors for the eigenstates of two quantum chaotic systems coupled with a weak interaction. The progression from a lack of entanglement in the noninteracting limit to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Steven Tomsovic , Arul Lakshminarayan , Shashi C. L. Srivastava , Arnd Bäcker

We study the problem of learning the Hamiltonian of a many-body quantum system from experimental data. We show that the rate of learning depends on the amount of control available during the experiment. We consider three control models: one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Alicja Dutkiewicz , Thomas E. O'Brien , Thomas Schuster

We consider a quantum particle under the dynamical confinement caused by PT-symmetric box with a moving wall. The latter is described in terms of the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation obeying the time-dependent PT-symmetric boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 S. Rakhmanov , C. Trunk , M. Znojil , D. Matrasulov

We show that the diagonal matrix elements of the effective Hamiltonian governing the time evolution in the subspace of states of an unstable particle and its antiparticle need not be equal at $t > t_{0}$ ($t_{0}$ is the instant of creation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 K. Urbanowski

This paper considers systems subject to nonholonomic constraints which are not uniform on the whole configuration manifold. When the constraints change, the system undergoes a transition in order to comply with the new imposed conditions.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jorge Cortes , Alexandre M. Vinogradov

Usually, in supersymmetric theories, it is assumed that the time-evolution of states is determined by the Hamiltonian, through the Schr\"odinger equation. Here we explore the superevolution of states in superspace, in which the supercharges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 N. S. Manton

We demonstrate that non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with spontaneously broken PT-symmetry and partially complex eigenvalue spectrum can be made meaningful in a quantum mechanical sense when introducing some explicit time-dependence into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-06 Andreas Fring , Thomas Frith

We present two examples of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians which consist of an unperturbed part plus a perturbation that behaves like a vector, in the framework of PT quantum mechanics. The first example is a generalization of the recent work by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Rudolph Kalveks

Consider a classically chaotic system which is described by a Hamiltonian H_0. At t=0 the Hamiltonian undergoes a sudden-change H_0 -> H. We consider the quantum-mechanical spreading of the evolving energy distribution, and argue that it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsampikos Kottos , Doron Cohen

We introduce a new class of quantum models with time-dependent Hamiltonians of a special scaling form. By using a couple of time-dependent unitary transformations, the time evolution of these models is expressed in terms of related systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Samaj