A PHYSICAL REALIZATION OF THE GENERALIZED PT-, C-, AND CPT-SYMMETRIES AND THE POSITION OPERATOR FOR KLEIN–GORDON FIELDS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X06028813zbMATH Open1098.81056arXivquant-ph/0307059OpenAlexW2951308009MaRDI QIDQ5484763FDOQ5484763

Ali Mostafazadeh

Publication date: 21 August 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Generalized parity (P), time-reversal (T), and charge-conjugation (C)operators were initially definedin the study of the pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians. We construct a concrete realization of these operators for Klein-Gordon fields and show that in this realization PT and C operators respectively correspond to the ordinary time-reversal and charge-grading operations. Furthermore, we present a complete description of the quantum mechanics of Klein-Gordon fields that is based on the construction of a Hilbert space with a relativistically invariant, positive-definite, and conserved inner product. In particular we offer a natural construction of a position operator and the corresponding localized and coherent states. The restriction of this position operator to the positive-frequency fields coincides with the Newton-Wigner operator. Our approach does not rely on the conventional restriction to positive-frequency fields. Yet it provides a consistent quantum mechanical description of Klein-Gordon fields with a genuine probabilistic interpretation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0307059

zbMATH Keywords

Klein-Gordon fieldpseudo-Hermitianlocalized statesNewton-Wigner position operatorCPT-symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05)

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