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A free non-relativistic particle moving in two dimensions on a half-plane can be described by self-adjoint Hamiltonians characterized by boundary conditions imposed on the systems. The most general boundary condition is parameterized in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Michel Carreau

In PT quantum mechanics a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, that the Hamiltonian must be hermitian, is replaced by another set of requirements, including notably symmetry under PT, where P denotes parity and T denotes time…

The two-body Dirac equations for the bound q bar q systems are obtained from the different (five) versions of the 3D-equations derived from Bethe-Salpeter equation with the instantaneous kernel in the momentum space using the additional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Babutsidze , T. Kopaleishvili , D. Kurashvili

We consider a free quantum particle in one dimension whose mass profile exhibits jump discontinuities. The corresponding Hamiltonian is a self-adjoint realisation of the kinetic-energy operator, with the specific realisation determined by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Fabio Deelan Cunden , Giovanni Gramegna , Marilena Ligabò

We consider a nonrelativistic quantum particle constrained to a curved layer of constant width built over a non-compact surface embedded in $R^3$. We suppose that the latter is endowed with the geodesic polar coordinates and that the layer…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pierre Duclos , Pavel Exner , David Krejcirik

This paper is devoted to a study of relativistic eigenstates of Dirac particles which are simultaneously bound by a static Coulomb potential and added linear confining potentials. It has recently been shown that, despite the addition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-09 J. H. Noble , U. D. Jentschura

We formulate quantum mechanics in spacetimes with real-order fractional geometry and more general factorizable measures. In spacetimes where coordinates and momenta span the whole real line, Heisenberg's principle is proven and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-18 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli , Marco Scalisi

Conventional particle theories such as the Standard Model have a number of freely adjustable coupling constants and mass parameters, depending on the symmetry algebra of the local gauge group and the representations chosen for the spinor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Gerard 't Hooft

Different families of states, which are solutions of the time-dependent free Schr\"odinger equation, are imported from the harmonic oscillator using the Quantum Arnold Transformation introduced in a previous paper. Among them, infinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Julio Guerrero , Francisco F. López-Ruiz , Victor Aldaya , Francisco Cossio

The statistical mechanics of particles that populate indistinguishable energy sub-states is explored. In particular, the mathematical treatment of the microstates differs from conventional statistical mechanics where for a given degeneracy,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-20 Shimul Akhanjee

A reformulation of a physical theory in which measurements at the initial and final moments of time are treated independently is discussed, both on the classical and quantum levels. Methods of the standard quantum mechanics are used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Pavel Krtous

The eigenvalue of the hermitic Hamiltonian is real undoubtedly. Actually, The reality can also be guaranteed by the $PT$-symmetry. The hermiticity and the $PT$-symmetric quantum theory both have requirements regarding the boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-16 Hao Jiang , Xiang-Jun Kong , Hui-Ping Huang

In this paper we argue that boundary condition may run with energy scale. As an illustrative example, we consider one-dimensional quantum mechanics for a spinless particle that freely propagates in the bulk yet interacts only at the origin.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-01-29 Satoshi Ohya , Makoto Sakamoto , Motoi Tachibana

The problem of unambiguously distinguishing among nonorthogonal but linearly independent quantum states can be solved by mapping the set of nonorthogonal quantum states onto a set of orthogonal ones, which can then be distinguished without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Yuqing Sun , Mark Hillery , Janos Bergou

Wave-particle duality is one of the basic features of quantum mechanics, giving rise to the use of complex numbers in describing states of quantum systems, their dynamics, and interaction. Since the inception of quantum theory, it has been…

There are few exactly solvable potentials in quantum mechanics for which the completeness relation of the energy eigenstates can be explicitly verified. In this article, we give an elementary proof that the set of bound (discrete) states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-25 F. Erman , O. T. Turgut

The Lindblad equation, as one approach to open quantum systems, describes the density matrix of a particle or a chain of interacting particles, which are in contact with a thermal bath. Still, it is not fully understood yet, how arbitrary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Jan Rais , Hendrik van Hees , Carsten Greiner

We consider an open domain with a compact boundary in an Euclidean space and a Schroedinger operator with magnetic field on this domain. We give sufficient conditions on the rate of growth of the magnetic field near the boundary which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-15 Yves Colin De Verdière , Francoise Truc

In this paper we present a necessary and sufficient condition of distinguishability of bipartite quantum states. It is shown that the operators to reliably distinguish states need only rounds of projective measurements and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Ping-Xing Chen , Cheng-Zu Li

The BOUND program calculates the bound states of a complex formed from two interacting particles using coupled-channel methods. It is particularly suitable for the bound states of atom-molecule and molecule-molecule Van der Waals complexes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Jeremy M. Hutson , C. Ruth Le Sueur