Fundamental length in quantum theories with PT-symmetric Hamiltonians
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SYSNO ASEP 0333963 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Fundamental length in quantum theories with PT-symmetric Hamiltonians Title Fundamentální délka v kvantových teoriích s PT-symetrickými Hamiltoniany Author(s) Znojil, Miloslav (UJF-V) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. - : American Physical Society - ISSN 1550-7998
Roč. 80, č. 4 (2009), 045022/1-045022/20Number of pages 20 s. Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords non-Hermitian Hamiltonians ; anharmonic-oscillators ; noncommutative space Subject RIV BE - Theoretical Physics R&D Projects LC06002 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) GA202/07/1307 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) CEZ AV0Z10480505 - UJF-V (2005-2011) UT WOS 000269641400105 DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.045022 Annotation One-dimensional motion of a quantum point particle is usually described by its wave function Sigma(x), where the argument x is an element of R represents a (measurable) coordinate and where the integrated probability density is normalized to one, integral Sigma(*)(x)Sigma(x)=1. The direct observability of x may be lost in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics where a "smeared" metric kernel Theta(')((x,x))not equal delta(x-x(')) may enter the double-integral normalization Sigma(*)(x)Theta(')((x,x))Sigma(x('))=1. We argue that such a formalism proves particularly suitable for the introduction of a nonvanishing fundamental length theta > 0, which would characterize the "smearing width" of the kernel Theta(')((x,x)). The technical feasibility of such a project is illustrated via a toy family of Hamiltonians H-(N)(lambda) taken from Ref. 11. For each element of this family the complete set of all the eligible metric kernels Theta(')((x,x))((N))(lambda) is constructed in closed form. Workplace Nuclear Physics Institute Contact Markéta Sommerová, sommerova@ujf.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 173 228 Year of Publishing 2010