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Non-Unitary evolution of quantum time-dependent non-Hermitian systems

Quantum Physics 2017-07-21 v1

Abstract

We provide a new perspective on non-Hermitian evolution in quantum mechanics by emphasizing the same method as in the Hermitian quantum evolution. We first give a precise description of the non unitary evolution, and collecting the basic results around it and postulating the norm preserving. This cautionary postulate imposing that the time evolution of a non Hermitian quantum system preserves the inner products between the associated states must not be read naively. We also give an example showing that the solutions of time-dependent non Hermitian Hamiltonian systems given by a linear combination of SU(1,1) and SU(2) are obtained thanks to time-dependent non-unitary transformation.

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@article{arxiv.1707.06392,
  title  = {Non-Unitary evolution of quantum time-dependent non-Hermitian systems},
  author = {Mustapha Maamache},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06392},
  year   = {2017}
}

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