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We address the long-standing ``ghost problem" in higher time-derivative theories (HTDTs), where quantisation typically yields sectors with either unbounded spectra or non-normalisable eigenstates; both rendering the theory unphysical. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Andreas Fring , Takano Taira , Bethan Turner

We develop a Bohmian analysis of a two-dimensional ghost Hamiltonian and its mapping to the degenerate Pais-Uhlenbeck model. Using Gaussian wavepackets, we derive the corresponding guidance equations, the centre and width evolution, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring

We discuss exactly solvable systems involving integrals of motion with higher powers of momenta. If one of these integrals is chosen for the Hamiltonian, we obtain a higher-derivative system involving ghosts, i.e. a system whose Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-07 A. V. Smilga

An N-dimensional position-dependent mass Hamiltonian (depending on a parameter \lambda) formed by a curved kinetic term and an intrinsic oscillator potential is considered. It is shown that such a Hamiltonian is exactly solvable for any…

We investigate the Pais-Uhlenbeck (PU) model, a paradigmatic example of a higher time-derivative theory, by identifying the Lie symmetries of its associated fourth-order dynamical equation. Exploiting these symmetries in conjunction with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Alexander Felski , Andreas Fring , Bethan Turner

For a large class of time-dependent non-Hermitain Hamiltonians expressed in terms linear and bilinear combinations of the generators for an Euclidean Lie-algebra respecting different types of PT-symmetries, we find explicit solutions to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Andreas Fring , Thomas Frith

Ostrogradsky's method allows one to construct Hamiltonian formulation for a higher derivative system. An application of this approach to the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator yields the Hamiltonian which is unbounded from below. This leads to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-24 Ivan Masterov

Correct quantum Hamiltonians of a few exactly solvable models in two space-time dimensions are derived by taking into account operator solutions of the field equations. While two versions of the model with derivative coupling are found to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-13 Lubomir Martinovic

Two coupled two-level systems placed under external time-dependent magnetic fields are modeled by a general Hamiltonian endowed with a symmetry that enables us to reduce the total dynamics into two independent two-dimensional sub-dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-20 R. Grimaudo , A. Messina , H. Nakazato

We provide exact analytical solutions for a two dimensional explicitly time-dependent non-Hermitian quantum system. While the time-independent variant of the model studied is in the broken PT-symmetric phase for the entire range of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Andreas Fring , Thomas Frith

The Pais-Uhlenbeck model is a quantum theory described by a higher-derivative field equation. It has been believed for many years that this model possesses ghost states (quantum states of negative norm) and therefore that this model is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 Carl M. Bender , Philip D. Mannheim

We establish quantum and classical exact solvability for two large classes of maximally superintegrable Benenti systems in $n$ dimensions with arbitrarily large $n$. Namely, we solve the Hamilton--Jacobi and Schr\"odinger equations for the…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-06-13 A. Sergyeyev

We construct a variety of new exactly-solvable quantum systems, the potentials of which are given in terms of Lambert-W functions. In particular, we generate Schr\"odinger models with energy-dependent potentials, conventional Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 A. Schulze-Halberg , A. M. Ishkhanyan

We study a two-dimensional exactly solvable non-Hermitian $PT-$non-symmetric quantum model with real spectrum, which is not amenable to separation of variables, by supersymmetrical methods. Here we focus attention on the property of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Cannata , M. V. Ioffe , D. N. Nishnianidze

We present a detailed analysis of the sixth-order Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator and construct three-dimensional ghost-free representations through a Tri-Hamiltonian framework. We identify a six-dimensional Abelian Lie algebra of the PU model's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Alexander Felski , Andreas Fring , Bethan Turner

The Hamiltonian of the $N$-particle Calogero model can be expressed in terms of generators of a Lie algebra for a definite class of representations. Maintaining this Lie algebra, its representations, and the flatness of the Riemannian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Oliver Haschke , Werner Ruehl

In this talk I present a simple and unified approach to both exact and quasi-exact solvabilities of the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation. It is based on the prepotential together with Bethe ansatz equations. This approach gives the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Choon-Lin Ho

It is shown that the 3-body trigonometric G_2 integrable system is exactly-solvable. If the configuration space is parametrized by certain symmetric functions of the coordinates then, for arbitrary values of the coupling constants, the…

solv-int · Physics 2009-10-30 Marcos Rosenbaum , Alexander Turbiner , Antonio Capella

In this paper we quantize the $N$-dimensional classical Hamiltonian system $H= \frac{|q|}{2(\eta + |q|)} p^2-\frac{k}{\eta +|q|}$, that can be regarded as a deformation of the Coulomb problem with coupling constant $k$, that it is smoothly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Angel Ballesteros , Alberto Enciso , Francisco J. Herranz , Orlando Ragnisco , Danilo Riglioni

By exploiting the hidden algebraic structure of the Schrodinger Hamiltonian, namely the sl(2), we propose a unified approach of generating both exactly solvable and quasi-exactly solvable quantum potentials. We obtain, in this way, two new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Bagchi , A. Ganguly
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