Rigged Hilbert space formalism as an extended mathematical formalism for quantum systems. I. General theory

1974 ◽  
Vol 15 (7) ◽  
pp. 902-916 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olaf Melsheimer
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
General Theory ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Mathematical Formalism ◽  
Rigged Hilbert Space ◽  
Space Formalism

scholarly journals Paths of unitary access to exceptional points

2021 ◽  
Vol 2038 (1) ◽  
pp. 012026
Author(s):  
Miloslav Znojil
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Phase Transitions ◽  
Quantum Phase Transitions ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Explicit Description ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Exceptional Point ◽  
Exceptional Points ◽  
Innovative Idea

Abstract With an innovative idea of acceptability and usefulness of the non-Hermitian representations of Hamiltonians for the description of unitary quantum systems (dating back to the Dyson’s papers), the community of quantum physicists was offered a new and powerful tool for the building of models of quantum phase transitions. In this paper the mechanism of such transitions is discussed from the point of view of mathematics. The emergence of the direct access to the instant of transition (i.e., to the Kato’s exceptional point) is attributed to the underlying split of several roles played by the traditional single Hilbert space of states ℒ into a triplet (viz., in our notation, spaces K and ℋ besides the conventional ℒ ). Although this explains the abrupt, quantum-catastrophic nature of the change of phase (i.e., the loss of observability) caused by an infinitesimal change of parameters, the explicit description of the unitarity-preserving corridors of access to the phenomenologically relevant exceptional points remained unclear. In the paper some of the recent results in this direction are summarized and critically reviewed.

scholarly journals Modelling equilibration of local many-body quantum systems by random graph ensembles

Quantum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nickelsen ◽  
Michael Kastner
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Random Matrices ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Maximum Flow ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Complex Matrix ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Random Matrix Ensembles ◽  
Matrix Ensembles ◽  
Exact Diagonalisation

We introduce structured random matrix ensembles, constructed to model many-body quantum systems with local interactions. These ensembles are employed to study equilibration of isolated many-body quantum systems, showing that rather complex matrix structures, well beyond Wigner's full or banded random matrices, are required to faithfully model equilibration times. Viewing the random matrices as connectivities of graphs, we analyse the resulting network of classical oscillators in Hilbert space with tools from network theory. One of these tools, called the maximum flow value, is found to be an excellent proxy for equilibration times. Since maximum flow values are less expensive to compute, they give access to approximate equilibration times for system sizes beyond those accessible by exact diagonalisation.

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