{ "id": "0710.5653", "version": "v1", "published": "2007-10-30T14:05:27.000Z", "updated": "2007-10-30T14:05:27.000Z", "title": "Time-dependent quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonians and the unitarity of quantum evolution", "authors": [ "Miloslav Znojil" ], "comment": "10 pp", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We show that the consequences of an introduction of a manifest time-dependence in a pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian H=H(t) are by far less drastic than suggested by A. Mostafazadeh in Phys. Lett. B 650 (2007) 208 (arXiv:0706.1872v2 [quant-ph]). In particular, the unitarity of the evolution does not necessitate the time-independence of the metric $\\eta_+=\\eta_+(t)$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2007-10-30T14:05:27.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "time-dependent quasi-hermitian hamiltonians", "quantum evolution", "manifest time-dependence", "pseudo-hermitian hamiltonian", "consequences" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 10, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0710.5653Z" } } }