Identification of the metric for diagonalizable (anti-)pseudo-Hermitian Hamilton operators represented by two-dimensional matrices

Abstract

A general strategy is provided to identify the most general metric for diagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian and anti-pseudo-Hermitian Hamilton operators represented by two-dimensional matrices. It is investigated how a permutation of the eigen-values of the Hamilton operator in the process of its diagonalization influences the metric and how this permutation equivalence affects energy eigen-values. We try to understand on one hand, how the metric depends on the normalization of the chosen left and right eigen-basis of the matrix representing the diagonalizable pseudo-Hermitian or anti-pseudo-Hermitian Hamilton operator, on the other hand, whether there has to exist a positive semi-definite metric required to set up a meaningful Quantum Theory even for non-Hermitian Hamilton operators of this type. Using our general strategy we determine the metric with respect to the two elements of the two-dimensional permutation group for various topical examples of matrices representing two-dimensional Hamilton operators found in the literature assuming on one hand pseudo-Hermiticity, on the other hand anti-pseudo-Hermiticity. The (unnecessary) constraint inferred by C. M. Bender and collegues that the $\mathcal{C}$-operator of $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric Quantum Theory should be an involution (${\mathcal{C}}^2=1$) is shown - in the unbroken phase of $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetry - to require the Hamilton operator to be symmetric. This inconvenient restriction had been already - with hesitation - noted by M. Znojil and H. B. Geyer in 2006 (arXiv:quant-ph/0607104). A Hamilton operator proposed by T. D. Lee and C. G. Wick is used to outline implications of the formalism to higher dimensional Hamilton operators.

95 pages, 2 figures

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