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A Hermitian and an anti-Hermitian first-order intertwining operators are introduced and a class of $\eta$-weak-pseudo-Hermitian position-dependent mass (PDM) Hamiltonians are constructed. A corresponding reference-target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 Omar Mustafa , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

Inspired by Le Calvez' theory of transverse foliations for dynamical systems of surfaces, we introduce a dynamical invariant, denoted by N, for Hamiltonians of any surface other than the sphere. When the surface is the plane or is closed…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-21 Vincent Humilière , Frédéric Le Roux , Sobhan Seyfaddini

When a fluid surface adheres to a substrate, the location of the contact line adjusts in order to minimize the overall energy. This adhesion balance implies boundary conditions which depend on the characteristic surface deformation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-11-09 Markus Deserno , Martin M. Mueller , Jemal Guven

In this work, a nonlinear momentum method is introduced to enhance the convergence performance of momentum-based gradient optimization algorithms. Classical momentum methods, such as the Heavy Ball method, can be viewed as a dynamical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Jianing Zhang , Rumei Liu

We present a generalization of the perturbative construction of the metric operator for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with more than one perturbation parameter. We use this method to study the non-Hermitian scattering Hamiltonian:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Hossein Mehri-Dehnavi , Ali Mostafazadeh , Ahmet Batal

In this paper the normal collision of spherical particles is investigated. The particle interaction is modelled in a macroscopic way using the Hertzian contact force with additional linear damping. The goal of the work is to develop an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-03-02 Shouryya Ray , Tobias Kempe , Jochen Fröhlich

We analyze two simple models derived from a quantum-mechanical particle on an elliptical path. The first Hamiltonian operator is non-Hermitian but equivalent to an Hermitian operator. It appears to exhibit the same two-fold degeneracy as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Francisco M. Fernández

We develop relativistic non-Hermitian quantum theory and its application to neutrino physics in a strong magnetic field. It is well known, that one of the fundamental postulates of quantum theory is the requirement of Hermiticity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-25 V. N. Rodionov

We derive the Pauli equation for a charged spin particle confined to move on a spatially curved surface $\mathcal{S}$ in an electromagnetic field. Using the thin-layer quantization scheme to constrain the particle on $\mathcal{S}$, and in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Yong-Long Wang , Long Du , Chang-Tan Xu , Xiao-Jun Liu , Hong-Shi Zong

We have recently constructed a photon position operator with commuting components. This was long thought to be impossible, but our position eigenvectors have a vortex structure like twisted light. Thus they are not spherically symmetric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Margaret Hawton

Non-Hermitian but P(phi)T(phi)-symmetrized spherically-separable Dirac and Schrodinger Hamiltonians are considered. It is observed that the descendant Hamiltonians H(r), H(theta), and H(phi) play essential roles and offer some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Mustafa , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

This paper examines the features of a generalized position-dependent mass Hamiltonian in a supersymmetric framework in which the constraints of pseudo-Hermiticity and CPT are naturally embedded. Different representations of the charge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 B. Bagchi , A. Banerjee , A. Ganguly

Brownian motion of free particles on curved surfaces is studied by means of the Langevin equation written in Riemann normal coordinates. In the diffusive regime we find the same physical behavior as the one described by the diffusion…

Non-Hermiticity significantly enriches the concepts of symmetry and topology in physics. Particularly, non-Hermiticity gives rise to the ramified symmetries, where the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H$ is transformed to $H^\dagger$. For…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 W. B. Rui , Y. X. Zhao , Z. D. Wang

We compute the modular Hamiltonians of regions having the future horizon lying on a null plane. For a CFT this is equivalent to regions with boundary of arbitrary shape lying on the null cone. These Hamiltonians have a local expression on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Horacio Casini , Eduardo Teste , Gonzalo Torroba

We give a general derivation of the gravitational hamiltonian starting from the Einstein-Hilbert action, keeping track of all surface terms. The surface term that arises in the hamiltonian can be taken as the definition of the `total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 S. W. Hawking , Gary. T. Horowitz

The Hamiltonian of mean force is an effective Hamiltonian that allows a quantum system, non-weakly coupled to an environment, to be written in an effective Gibbs state. We present results on the structure of the Hamiltonian of mean force in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Phillip C. Burke , Goran Nakerst , Masudul Haque

We offer a clear physical explanation for the emergence of the quantum operator formalism, by revisiting the role of the vacuum field in quantum mechanics. The vacuum or random zero-point radiation field has been shown previously, using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Ana María Cetto , Luis de la Peña , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

In work arXiv:1204.2788, a surface embedded in flat $R^3$ is associated to any three hermitian matrices. We study this emergent surface when the matrices are large, by constructing coherent states corresponding to points in the emergent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Joanna L. Karczmarek , Philippe Sabella-Garnier , Ken Huai-Che Yeh

We clearly refine the fundamental framework of the thin-layer quantization procedure, and further develop the procedure by taking the proper terms of degree one in $q_3$ ($q_3$ denotes the curvilinear coordinate variable perpendicular to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Yong-Long Wang , Hong-Shi Zong