Delta-function potential with a complex coupling
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Publication:3420552
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/43/008zbMATH Open1105.81031arXivquant-ph/0606198OpenAlexW3098181975MaRDI QIDQ3420552FDOQ3420552
Authors: Ali Mostafazadeh 
Publication date: 2 February 2007
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We explore the Hamiltonian operator H=-d^2/dx^2 + z delta(x) where x is real, delta(x) is the Dirac delta function, and z is an arbitrary complex coupling constant. For a purely imaginary z, H has a (real) spectral singularity at E=-z^2/4. For Re(z)<0, H has an eigenvalue at E=-z^2/4. For the case that Re(z)>0, H has a real, positive, continuous spectrum that is free from spectral singularities. For this latter case, we construct an associated biorthonormal system and use it to perform a perturbative calculation of a positive-definite inner product that renders H self-adjoint. This allows us to address the intriguing question of the nonlocal aspects of the equivalent Hermitian Hamiltonian for the system. In particular, we compute the energy expectation values for various Gaussian wave packets to show that the non-Hermiticity effect diminishes rapidly outside an effective interaction region.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606198
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