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Pseudo-bosons and their coherent states. (English) Zbl 1510.81083

Mathematical Physics Studies. Cham: Springer (ISBN 978-3-030-94998-3/hbk; 978-3-030-94999-0/ebook). xi, 201 p. (2022).
Publisher’s description: This book is based on the analysis of canonical commutation relations (CCRs) and their possible deformations. In light of the recent interest on PT-quantum mechanics, the author presents a special deformed version of the CCRs, and discusses the consequences of this deformation both from a mathematical side, and for its possible applications to physics. These include the analysis of several non self-adjoint Hamiltonians, a novel view to the position and momentum operators, and a general approach to compute path integrals and transition probabilities using the so-called bi-coherent states. The book is meant for researchers and is also suited for advanced students. It can be used as a gentle introduction to some delicate aspects in functional analysis and in quantum mechanics for non self-adjoint observables.

MSC:

81S05 Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general)
14D15 Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry
81Q12 Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators
81S40 Path integrals in quantum mechanics
81R30 Coherent states
46N50 Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics
81-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory
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