Physical aspects of pseudo-Hermitian andPT-symmetric quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/37/48/009zbMATH Open1064.81057arXivquant-ph/0408132OpenAlexW1997704234MaRDI QIDQ4660436FDOQ4660436

Authors: Ahmet Batal, Ali Mostafazadeh 

Publication date: 21 March 2005

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

Abstract: For a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian H possessing a real spectrum, we introduce a canonical orthonormal basis in which a previously introduced unitary mapping of H to a Hermitian Hamiltonian h takes a simple form. We use this basis to construct the observables O of the quantum mechanics based on H. In particular, we introduce pseudo-Hermitian position and momentum operators and a pseudo-Hermitian quantization scheme that relates the latter to the ordinary classical position and momentum observables. These allow us to address the problem of determining the conserved probability density and the underlying classical system for pseudo-Hermitian and in particular PT-symmetric quantum systems. As a concrete example we construct the Hermitian Hamiltonian h, the physical observables O, the localized states, and the conserved probability density for the non-Hermitian PT-symmetric square well. We achieve this by employing an appropriate perturbation scheme. For this system, we conduct a comprehensive study of both the kinematical and dynamical effects of the non-Hermiticity of the Hamiltonian on various physical quantities. In particular, we show that these effects are quantum mechanical in nature and diminish in the classical limit. Our results provide an objective assessment of the physical aspects of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics and clarify its relationship with both the conventional quantum mechanics and the classical mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408132

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20)

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