Biorthogonal Renormalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06004v2
• Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 09:47:22 GMT
• Title: Biorthogonal Renormalization
• Authors: Elisabet Edvardsson, J Lukas K K\"onig, Marcus St{\aa}lhammar
• Abstract summary: The biorthogonal formalism extends conventional quantum mechanics to the non-Hermitian realm. It has been pointed out that the biorthogonal inner product changes with the scaling of the eigenvectors. We argue when this choice of normalization is of physical importance.
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• Abstract: The biorthogonal formalism extends conventional quantum mechanics to the non-Hermitian realm. It has, however, been pointed out that the biorthogonal inner product changes with the scaling of the eigenvectors, an ambiguity whose physical significance is still being debated. Here, we revisit this issue and argue when this choice of normalization is of physical importance. We illustrate in which settings quantities such as expectation values and transition probabilities depend on the scaling of eigenvectors, and in which settings the biorthogonal formalism remains unambiguous. To resolve the apparent scaling ambiguity, we introduce an inner product independent of the gauge choice of basis and show that its corresponding mathematical structure is consistent with quantum mechanics. Using this formalism, we identify a deeper problem relating to the physicality of Hilbert space representations, which we illustrate using the position basis. Apart from increasing the understanding of the mathematical foundations upon which many physical results rely, our findings also pave the way towards consistent comparisons between systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians.

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