Matrix algebras in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0253-6102/56/1/18MaRDI QIDQ2913298zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alessandro Sergi

Publication date 26 September 2012

Published in Communications in Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0906

zbMATH Keywords

open quantum systemsnon-Hermitian quantum mechanicsnon-Hamiltonian dynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

Abstract: In principle, non-Hermitian quantum equations of motion can be formulated using as a starting point either the Heisenberg's or the Schr"odinger's picture of quantum dynamics. Here it is shown in both cases how to map the algebra of commutators, defining the time evolution in terms of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian, onto a non-Hamiltonian algebra with a Hermitian Hamiltonian. The logic behind such a derivation is reversible, so that any Hermitian Hamiltonian can be used in the formulation of non-Hermitian dynamics through a suitable algebra of generalized (non-Hamiltonian) commutators. These results provide a general structure (a template) for non-Hermitian equations of motion to be used in the computer simulation of open quantum systems dynamics.

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