Cryptohermitian Picture of Scattering Using Quasilocal Metric Operators

One-dimensional unitary scattering controlled by non-Hermitian (typically, PT-symmetric) quantum Hamiltonians H ≠ H† 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...

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Date:2009
Main Author: Znojil, M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2009
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/149110
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Journal Title:Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Cite this:Cryptohermitian Picture of Scattering Using Quasilocal Metric Operators / M. Znojil // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2009. — Т. 5. — Бібліогр.: 33 назв. — англ.

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Summary:One-dimensional unitary scattering controlled by non-Hermitian (typically, PT-symmetric) quantum Hamiltonians H ≠ H† 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 Θ ≠ I represented, in Runge-Kutta approximation, by (2R–1)-diagonal matrices.