Flattening the Curve with Einstein's Quantum Elevator: Hermitization of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians via a Generalized Vielbein Formalism

Abstract

The formalism for non-Hermitian quantum systems sometimes blurs the underlying physics. We present a systematic study of the vielbein-like formalism which transforms the Hilbert space bundles of non-Hermitian systems into the conventional ones, rendering the induced Hamiltonian to be Hermitian. In other words, any non-Hermitian Hamiltonian can be "transformed" into a Hermitian one without altering the physics. Thus we show how to find a reference frame (corresponding to Einstein's quantum elevator) in which a non-Hermitian system, equipped with a non-trivial Hilbert space metric, reduces to a Hermitian system within the standard formalism of quantum mechanics.

10 pages, 2 figures

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