Pseudo-supersymmetric quantum mechanics and isospectral pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians

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DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00347-4zbMATH Open0997.81031arXivmath-ph/0203041OpenAlexW1997612418MaRDI QIDQ696097FDOQ696097


Authors: Ali Mostafazadeh Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 10 September 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We examine the properties and consequences of pseudo-supersymmetry for quantum systems admitting a pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We explore the Witten index of pseudo-supersymmetry and show that every pair of diagonalizable (not necessarily Hermitian) Hamiltonians with discrete spectra and real or complex-conjugate pairs of eigenvalues are isospectral and have identical degeneracy structure except perhaps for the zero eigenvalue if and only if they are pseudo-supersymmetric partners. This implies that pseudo-supersymmetry is the basic framework for generating non-Hermitian PT-symmetric and non-PT-symmetric Hamiltonians with a real spectrum via a Darboux transformation, and shows that every diagonalizable Hamiltonian H with a discrete spectrum and real or complex-conjugate pairs of eigenvalues may be factored as H=L^# L where L is a linear operator with pseudo-adjoint L^#. In particular, this factorization applies to PT-symmetric and Hermitian Hamiltonians. The nondegenerate two-level systems provide a class of Hamiltonians that are pseudo-Hermitian. We demonstrate the implications of our general results for this class in some detail.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0203041




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