Pseudo-reality and pseudo-adjointness of Hamiltonians

Abstract

We define pseudo-reality and pseudo-adjointness of a Hamiltonian, $H$, as $\rho H{\rho }^{-1}=H^{\ast }$ and $\mu H{\mu }^{-1}=H^{\prime }$, respectively. We prove that the former yields the {\it necessary} condition for spectrum to be real whereas the latter helps in fixing a definition for inner-product of the eigenstates. Here we separate out adjointness of an operator from its Hermitian-adjointness. It turns out that a Hamiltonian possessing real spectrum is first pseudo-real, further it could be Hermitian, PT-symmetric or pseudo-Hermitian.

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