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From self-adjoint to non self-adjoint harmonic oscillators: physical consequences and mathematical pitfalls (1309.5065v1)

Published 19 Sep 2013 in math-ph and math.MP

Abstract: Using as a prototype example the harmonic oscillator we show how losing self-adjointness of the hamiltonian $H$ changes drastically the related functional structure. In particular, we show that even a small deviation from strict self-adjointness of $H$ produces two deep consequences, not well understood in the literature: first of all, the original orthonormal basis of $H$ splits into two families of biorthogonal vectors. These two families are complete but, contrarily to what often claimed for similar systems, none of them is a basis for the Hilbert space $\Hil$. Secondly, the so-called metric operator is unbounded, as well as its inverse. In the second part of the paper, after an extension of some previous results on the so-called $\D$ pseudo-bosons, we discuss some aspects of our extended harmonic oscillator from this different point of view.

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