Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with a real spectrum

and their physical applications

 

ALI MOSTAFAZADEH

Department of Mathematics, Koç University, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey

E-mail: amostafazadeh@ku.edu.tr

 

Abstract. We present an evaluation of some recent attempts to

understand the role of pseudo-Hermitian and PT-symmetric

Hamiltonians in modelling unitary quantum systems and elaborate on a

particular physical phenomenon whose discovery originated in the

study of complex scattering potentials.

 

Keywords. PT symmetry; pseudo-Hermiticity; metric operator;

unitary equivalence; scattering potential; spectral singularity;

resonance.

 

PACS No. 03.65.-w