A Hamiltonian formulation of the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator that yields a stable and unitary quantum system

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2010.10.050zbMath1241.70023arXiv1008.4678OpenAlexW2075204058MaRDI QIDQ430566

Ali Mostafazadeh

Publication date: 26 June 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4678

zbMATH Keywords

PT-symmetryunitarityhigher derivative theoriespseudo-hermiticitystable quantum system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12)

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