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Quantum mechanical settings inspired by RLC circuits

Mathematical Physics 2018-05-23 v1 math.MP

Abstract

In some recent papers several authors used electronic circuits to construct loss and gain systems. This is particularly interesting in the context of PT-quantum mechanics, where this kind of effects appears quite naturally. The electronic circuits used so far are simple, but not so much. Surprisingly enough, a rather trivial RLC circuit can be analyzed with the same perspective and it produces a variety of unexpected results, both from a mathematical and on a physical side. In this paper we show that this circuit produces two biorthogonal bases associated to the Liouville matrix \Lc\Lc used in the treatment of its dynamics, with a biorthogonality which is linked to the value of the parameters of the circuit. We also show that the related loss RLC circuit is naturally associated to a gain RLC circuit, and that the relation between the two is rather naturally encoded in \Lc\Lc. We propose a pseudo-fermionic analysis of the circuit, and we introduce the notion of mm-equivalence between electronic circuits.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1804.03968,
  title  = {Quantum mechanical settings inspired by RLC circuits},
  author = {G. Alicata and F. Bagarello and F. Gargano and S. Spagnolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03968},
  year   = {2018}
}
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