Smeared quantum lattices exhibiting PT-symmetry with positive P

DOI10.1002/PROP.201200048MaRDI QIDQ2812919zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miloslav Znojil, Hendrik B. Geyer

Publication date 13 June 2016

Published in Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5058

zbMATH Keywords

cryptohermiticityhorizonsquantum latticesunphysical and physical inner products

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Molecular physics (81V55) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: A new version of PT-symmetric quantum theory is proposed and illustrated by an N-site-lattice Legendre oscillator. The essence of the innovation lies in the replacement of parity P (serving as an indefinite metric in an auxiliary Krein space) by its non-involutory alternative P(positive)=Q>0 playing the role of a positive-definite nontrivial metric in an auxiliary, redundant, unphysical Hilbert space. It is shown that the QT-symmetry of this form remains appealing and technically useful.

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