Cryptohermitian picture of scattering using quasilocal metric operators

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2009.085zbMATH Open1188.81161arXiv0908.4045MaRDI QIDQ970269FDOQ970269

Authors: Miloslav Znojil 

Publication date: 17 May 2010

Published in: SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One-dimensional unitary scattering controlled by non-Hermitian (typically, $calPT$-symmetric) quantum Hamiltonians $Heq{H}^{d}agger$ is considered. Treating these operators via Runge-Kutta approximation, our three-Hilbert-space formulation of quantum theory is reviewed as explaining the unitarity of scattering. Our recent paper on bound states [Znojil M., SIGMA 5 (2009), 001, 19 pages, arXiv:0901.0700] is complemented by the text on scattering. An elementary example illustrates the feasibility of the resulting innovative theoretical recipe. A new family of the so called quasilocal inner products in Hilbert space is found to exist. Constructively, these products are all described in terms of certain non-equivalent short-range metric operators $ThetaeqI$ represented, in Runge-Kutta approximation, by $(2R-1)$-diagonal matrices.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.4045

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zbMATH Keywords

cryptohermitian observablesquasilocal metric operatorsRunge-Kutta discretizationunitary scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory, inverse scattering involving ordinary differential operators (34L25) Linear operators on spaces with an indefinite metric (47B50) Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations (65L06) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Scattering theory of linear operators (47A40) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Characterizations of Hilbert spaces (46C15)

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