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The standard quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator has an exact, dual relationship with a completely classical system: a classical particle running along a circle. Duality here means that there is a one-to-one relation between all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Gerard t Hooft

When a non-hermitian hamiltonian has a certain symmetry, such as the PT pseudo-hermiticity, it is still possible that the hamiltonian has a real spectrum. In this note, by adding an imaginary potential proportional to ip_1p_2 to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Jun-Qing Li , Yan-Gang Miao

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

Parity-time ($PT$)-symmetric Hamiltonians exhibit non-unitary dynamical evolution while maintaining real spectra, and offer unique approaches to quantum sensing and entanglement generation. Here we present a method for simulating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Maryam Abbasi , Koray Aydogan , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

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 Hermiticity axiom of quantum mechanics guarantees that the energy spectrum is real and the time evolution is unitary (probability-preserving). Nevertheless, non-Hermitian but $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonians may also have real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-06 Fernando Quijandría , Uta Naether , Sahin K. Özdemir , Franco Nori , David Zueco

To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

The exponential speedups promised by Hamiltonian simulation on a quantum computer depends crucially on structure in both the Hamiltonian $\hat{H}$, and the quantum circuit $\hat{U}$ that encodes its description. In the quest to better…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Guang Hao Low , Isaac L. Chuang

The dynamical aspects of a spin-1/2 particle in Hermitian coquaternionic quantum theory is investigated. It is shown that the time evolution exhibits three different characteristics, depending on the values of the parameters of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe

Theories described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians are known to possess strictly positive energy eigenvalues and exhibit unitary time evolution if the Hamiltonian is symmetric under discrete parity and time (PT) transformation. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-04 Jeffrey Kuntz

The Hamiltonian H specifies the energy levels and the time evolution of a quantum theory. It is an axiom of quantum mechanics that H be Hermitian because Hermiticity guarantees that the energy spectrum is real and that the time evolution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Carl M. Bender , Joachim Brod , Andre Refig , Moritz Reuter

In quantum mechanics and quantum field theory perturbation theory generically requires the inclusion of extra contributions non-perturbative in the coupling, such as instantons, to reproduce exact results. We show how full non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-01 Marco Serone , Gabriele Spada , Giovanni Villadoro

Here a special case of perturbation in quantum harmonic oscillator is studied. Here we assume the perturbed potential to be a Harmonic Oscillator that has been shifted in the position space.We construct the new creation and annihilation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Sankarshan Sahu

When analyzing the particle-like excitations in quantum field theory it is natural to regard the field mode corresponding to the particle momentum as an open quantum system, together with the opposite momentum mode. Provided that the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-17 Daniel Arteaga

In this article, we formulate the study of the unitary time evolution of systems consisting of an infinite number of uncoupled time-dependent harmonic oscillators in mathematically rigorous terms. We base this analysis on the theory of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Daniel Gómez Vergel , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

The Stone theorem requires that in a physical Hilbert space ${\cal H}$ the time-evolution of a stable quantum system is unitary if and only if the corresponding Hamiltonian $H$ is self-adjoint. Sometimes, a simpler picture of the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Miloslav Znojil

We prove that any symmetric Hamiltonian that is a quadratic function of the coordinates and momenta has a pseudo-Hermitian adjoint or regular matrix representation. The eigenvalues of the latter matrix are the natural frequencies of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Francisco M Fernández

In this article, we discussed certain properties of non-Hermitian $\CP$-symmetry Hamiltonian, and it is shown that a consistent physical theory of quantum mechanics can be built on a ${\cal C} \CP$-symmetry Hamiltonian. In particular, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Khaled Saaidi

For the non-conservative Caldirola-Kanai system, describing a quantum damped harmonic oscillator, a couple of constant-of-motion operators generating the Heisenberg-Weyl algebra can be found. The inclusion of the standard time evolution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Guerrero , F. F. López-Ruiz , V. Aldaya , F. Cossío

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