Bicoherent-state path integral quantization of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2020.168313zbMATH Open1448.81421arXiv2001.04955OpenAlexW2999909473MaRDI QIDQ2213992FDOQ2213992

Authors: Fabio Bagarello, Joshua Feinberg 

Publication date: 4 December 2020

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce, for the first time, bicoherent-state path integration as a method for quantizing non-hermitian systems. Bicoherent-state path integrals arise as a natural generalization of ordinary coherent-state path integrals, familiar from hermitian quantum physics. We do all this by working out a concrete example, namely, computation of the propagator of a certain quasi-hermitian variant of Swanson's model, which is not invariant under conventional $PT$-transformation. The resulting propagator coincides with that of the propagator of the standard harmonic oscillator, which is isospectral with the model under consideration by virtue of a similarity transformation relating the corresponding hamiltonians. We also compute the propagator of this model in position space by means of Feynman path integration and verify the consistency of the two results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04955

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zbMATH Keywords

path integral quantizationPT symmetrynon-Hermitian Hamiltonianspseudo-bosonsSwanson modelbicoherent states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Coherent states (81R30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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