Automatic hermiticity for mixed states

Abstract

We previously proposed a mechanism to effectively obtain, after a long time development, a Hamiltonian being Hermitian with regard to a modified inner product $I_Q$ that makes a given non-normal Hamiltonian normal by using an appropriately chosen Hermitian operator $Q$. We studied it for pure states. In this letter we show that a similar mechanism also works for mixed states by introducing density matrices to describe them and investigating their properties explicitly both in the future-not-included and future-included theories. In particular, in the latter, where not only a past state at the initial time $T_A$ but also a future state at the final time $T_B$ is given, we study a couple of candidates for it, and introduce a ``skew density matrix'' composed of both ensembles of the future and past states such that the trace of the product of it and an operator $\mathcal{O}$ matches a normalized matrix element of $\mathcal{O}$. We argue that the skew density matrix defined with $I_Q$ at the present time $t$ for large $T_B-t$ and large $t-T_A$ approximately corresponds to another density matrix composed of only an ensemble of past states and defined with another inner product $I_{Q_J}$ for large $t-T_A$.

arXiv commentLatex 14 pages, typos corrected, presentation improved, the final version to appear in Prog.Theor.Exp.Phys

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