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View SchemaCompleteness and Orthonormality in PT-symmetric Quantum Systems
| Authors | Stefan Weigert |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0306040 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0306040 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.062111 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 062111 |
Abstract
Some PT-symmetric non-hermitean Hamiltonians have only real eigenvalues. There is numerical evidence that the associated PT-invariant energy eigenstates satisfy an unconventional completeness relation. An ad hoc scalar product among the states is positive definite only if a recently introduced `charge operator' is included in its definition. A simple derivation of the conjectured completeness and orthonormality relations is given. It exploits the fact that PT-symmetry provides an additional link between the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian and those of its adjoint, which form a dual pair of bases. The `charge operator' emerges naturally upon expressing the properties of the dual bases in terms of one basis only.
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