https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2019-12738-3
Regular Article
Non-Hermitian noncommutative quantum mechanics
1
Universidade Federal do ABC, 09210-580, Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil
2
Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, P.O. Box 369, 13560-970, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
* e-mail: jonas.floriano@ufabc.edu.br
Received:
10
December
2018
Accepted:
6
May
2019
Published online:
15
July
2019
In this work we present a general formalism to treat non-Hermitian and noncommutative Hamiltonians. This is done employing the phase-space formalism of quantum mechanics, which allows to write a set of robust maps connecting the Hamitonians and the associated Wigner functions to the different Hilbert space structures, namely, those describing the non-Hermitian and noncommutative, Hermitian and noncommutative, and Hermitian and commutative systems. A general recipe is provided to obtain the expected values of the more general Hamiltonian. Finally, we apply our method to the harmonic oscillator under linear amplification and discuss the implications of both non-Hermitian and noncommutative effects.
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