Quantum knots

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.02.016zbMATH Open1220.81103arXiv0802.1318OpenAlexW3037040918MaRDI QIDQ637832FDOQ637832

Authors: Miloslav Znojil 

Publication date: 6 September 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is known that besides the usual unitary mappings $Omega=1/Omeg{a}^{d}agger$ between the equivalent representations of the physical Hilbert space of Quantum Mechanics (often, Fourier transformations), the generalized non-unitary maps $Omegaeq1/Omeg{a}^{d}agger$ can also help to simplify the analysis. We adapt the standard Dirac's notation and recollect the Buslaev's and Grecchi's repulsive quartic oscillator Hamiltonian as an example. Then we propose the whole new class of the models of the similar type, characterized by a complexification of the path $calC$ of the (obviously, not observable!) "coordinates". An exactly solvable potentialless Schr"{o}dinger equation is finally chosen for illustration. In it, the dynamical (i.e., in our example, confining) role of the traditional potentials $V(x)$ is shown to be taken over by the mere topologically nontrivial shape of $calC$. Our construction evokes several new open questions in physics ($calPT-$symmetric wave packets at a single energy?) as well as in mathematics (a three-Hilbert-space generalized formulation of Quantum Mechanics?).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.1318

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Isospectrality (58J53) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80)

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