Application of pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to a complex scattering potential with point interactions

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/14/145301MaRDI QIDQ3558442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hossein Mehri-Dehnavi, Ahmet Batal, Ali Mostafazadeh

Publication date 5 May 2010

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1221

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

Abstract: We present a generalization of the perturbative construction of the metric operator for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with more than one perturbation parameter. We use this method to study the non-Hermitian scattering Hamiltonian: H=p^2/2m+zeta_-delta(x+a)+zeta_+delta(x-a), where zeta_pm and a are respectively complex and real parameters and delta(x) is the Dirac delta function. For regions in the space of coupling constants zeta_pm where H is quasi-Hermitian and there are no complex bound states or spectral singularities, we construct a (positive-definite) metric operator eta and the corresponding equivalent Hermitian Hamiltonian h. eta turns out to be a (perturbatively) bounded operator for the cases that the imaginary part of the coupling constants have opposite sign, Im(zeta_+) = -Im(zeta_-). This in particular contains the PT-symmetric case: zeta_+ = zeta_-^*. We also calculate the energy expectation values for certain Gaussian wave packets to study the nonlocal nature of $h$ or equivalently the non-Hermitian nature of $H$. We show that these physical quantities are not directly sensitive to the presence of PT-symmetry.

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