Problem of the coexistence of several non-Hermitian observables in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics

Miloslav Znojil, Iveta Semorádová, František Růžička, Hafida Moulla, and Ilhem Leghrib
Phys. Rev. A 95, 042122 – Published 18 April 2017

Abstract

During recent developments in quantum theory it has been clarified that observable quantities (such as energy and position) may be represented by operators Λ (with real spectra) that are manifestly non-Hermitian in a preselected friendly Hilbert space H(F). The consistency of these models is known to require an upgrade of the inner product, i.e., mathematically speaking, a transition H(F)H(S) to another, standard, Hilbert space. We prove that whenever we are given more than one candidate for an observable (i.e., say, two operators Λ0 and Λ1) in advance, such an upgrade need not exist in general.

  • Received 31 October 2016
  • Revised 29 March 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.95.042122

©2017 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Interdisciplinary Physics

Authors & Affiliations

Miloslav Znojil*, Iveta Semorádová, and František Růžička

  • Nuclear Physics Institute CAS, 250 68 Řež, Czech Republic

Hafida Moulla§ and Ilhem Leghrib

  • Laboratoire de Physique Mathematique et Subatomique, Mentouri University, Constantine, Algeria

  • *znojil@ujf.cas.cz
  • semoradova@ujf.cas.cz
  • ruzicka@ujf.cas.cz
  • §moullahafida@yahoo.fr
  • leghribilhem@gmail.com

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Vol. 95, Iss. 4 — April 2017

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