Finite-dimensional -symmetric Hamiltonians

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/24/314zbMATH Open1069.81524arXivquant-ph/0303174OpenAlexW1987418145MaRDI QIDQ4450164FDOQ4450164

Peter N. Meisinger, Carl M. Bender, Qing-hai Wang

Publication date: 15 February 2004

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

Abstract: This paper investigates finite-dimensional representations of PT-symmetric Hamiltonians. In doing so, it clarifies some of the claims made in earlier papers on PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. In particular, it is shown here that there are two ways to extend real symmetric Hamiltonians into the complex domain: (i) The usual approach is to generalize such Hamiltonians to include complex Hermitian Hamiltonians. (ii) Alternatively, one can generalize real symmetric Hamiltonians to include complex PT-symmetric Hamiltonians. In the first approach the spectrum remains real, while in the second approach the spectrum remains real if the PT symmetry is not broken. Both generalizations give a consistent theory of quantum mechanics, but if D>2, a D-dimensional Hermitian matrix Hamiltonian has more arbitrary parameters than a D-dimensional PT-symmetric matrix Hamiltonian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303174

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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