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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

The redistribution of energy levels between energy bands is studied for a family of simple effective Hamiltonians depending on one control parameter and possessing axial symmetry and energy-reflection symmetry. Further study is made on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Guillaume Dhont , Toshihiro Iwai , Boris Zhilinskii

A review is given on the foundations and applications of non-Hermitian classical and quantum physics. First, key theorems and central concepts in non-Hermitian linear algebra, including Jordan normal form, biorthogonality, exceptional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Yuto Ashida , Zongping Gong , Masahito Ueda

Motivated by recent progress on non-Hermitian topological band theories, we study the energy spectrum of a generic two-band non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We prove rigorously that the complex energy spectrum of such a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Jonatan Melkær Midtgaard , Zhigang Wu , Yu Chen

A defining quantity of a physical system is its energy which is represented by the Hamiltonian. In closed quantum mechanical or/and coherent wave-based systems the Hamiltonian is introduced as a Hermitian operator which ensures real energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Jamal Berakdar , Xi-guang Wang

During the recent developments of quantum theory it has been clarified that the observable quantities (like energy or position) may be represented by operators (with real spectra) which are manifestly non-Hermitian. The mathematical…

The relativistic free particle system in 1+1 dimensions is formulated as a ``bi-Hamiltonian system''. One Hamiltonian generates ordinary time translations, and another generates (essentially) boosts. Any observer, accelerated or not, sees…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Cosgrove

We derive an explicit Hamiltonian for copying the basis up and down states of a quantum two-state system - a qubit - onto n "copy" qubits initially all prepared in the down state. In terms of spin components, for spin-1/2 particle spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Dima Mozyrsky , Vladimir Privman , Mark Hillery

The dynamics of spontaneous emission of an atomic system is studied in the framework of an open quantum system. The resulting quantum master equation for the atomic system is non hermitian. The generator $\mathcal{L}$ can possess…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Morag Am-Shallem , Ronnie Kosloff , Nimrod Moiseyev

We classify Hermitian tight-binding models describing noninteracting electrons on a one-dimensional periodic lattice with two energy bands. To do this, we write a generalized Rice-Mele model with two orbitals per unit cell, including all…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Edward McCann

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

We propose how to compute the complexity of operators generated by Hamiltonians in quantum field theory (QFT) and quantum mechanics (QM). The Hamiltonians in QFT/QM and quantum circuit have a few essential differences, for which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Run-Qiu Yang , Keun-Young Kim

By factorization of the Hamiltonian describing the quantum mechanics of the continuous q-Hermite polynomial, the creation and annihilation operators of the q-oscillator are obtained. They satisfy a q-oscillator algebra as a consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Satoru Odake , Ryu Sasaki

We extend the application of the techniques developed within the framework of the pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to study a unitary quantum system described by an imaginary PT-symmetric potential v(x) having a continuous real spectrum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Mostafazadeh

The three simultaneous algebraic equations, $C^2=1$, $[C,PT]=0$, $[C,H]=0$, which determine the $C$ operator for a non-Hermitian $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonian $H$, are shown to have a nonunique solution. Specifically, the $C$ operator for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-24 Carl M. Bender , S. P. Klevansky

In this paper a quantum mechanics is built by means of a non-Hermitian momentum operator. We have shown that it is possible to construct two Hermitian and two non-Hermitian type of Hamiltonians using this momentum operator. We can construct…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-25 Juan M. Romero , O. Gonzalez-Gaxiola , J. Ruiz de Chavez , R. Bernal-Jaquez

The concept of energy-dependent forces in quantum mechanics is re-analysed. We suggest a simplification of their study via the representation of each self-adjoint and energy-dependent Hamiltonian H=H(E) with real spectrum by an auxiliary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil , Hynek Bila , Vit Jakubsky

We first recall a fact which is well-known among mathematical physicists although lesser-known among theoretical physicists that the standard quantum mechanics over a complex Hilbert space, is a Hamiltonian mechanics, regarding the Hilbert…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Seyed Ebrahim Akrami

We present a phase space study of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry based on the Wigner distribution function. For an arbitrary complex potential, we derive a generalized continuity equation for the Wigner function flow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Ludmila Praxmeyer , Popo Yang , Ray-Kuang Lee

We write the loop equations for the $\beta$ two-matrix model, and we propose a topological recursion algorithm to solve them, order by order in a small parameter. We find that to leading order, the spectral curve is a "quantum" spectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Michel Bergère , Bertrand Eynard , Olivier Marchal , Aleix Prats-Ferrer