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arxiv: 1511.08092 · v1 · pith:FORBPQNBnew · submitted 2015-11-25 · 🪐 quant-ph

Unitary quantum evolution for time-dependent quasi-Hermitian systems with non-observable Hamiltonians

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keywords time-dependentmetricoperatordysonhamiltoniansnon-hermitiannon-observablequasi-hermitian
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It has been argued that it is incompatible to maintain unitary time-evolution for time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonians when the metric operator is explicitly time-dependent. We demonstrate here that the time-dependent Dyson equation and the time-dependent quasi-Hermiticity relation can be solved consistently in such a scenario for a time-dependent Dyson map and time-dependent metric operator, respectively. These solutions are obtained at the cost of rendering the non-Hermitian Hamiltonian to be a non-observable operator as it ceases to be quasi-Hermitian when the metric becomes time-dependent.

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