{
  "id": "1003.1955",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2010-03-09T19:05:59.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-03-09T19:05:59.000Z",
  "title": "Comment on \"Wave functions for a Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau particle in a time-dependent potential\"",
  "authors": [
    "L. B. Castro",
    "A. S. de Castro"
  ],
  "comment": "2 pages",
  "categories": [
    "math-ph",
    "math.MP",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "It is shown that the paper \"Wave functions for a Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau particle in a time-dependent potential\", by Merad and Bensaid [J. Math. Phys. 48, 073515 (2007)] is not correct in using inadvertently a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian in a formalism that does require Hermitian Hamiltonians.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2010-03-09T19:05:59.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.Pm"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "wave functions",
      "duffin-kemmer-petiau particle",
      "time-dependent potential",
      "hermitian hamiltonians",
      "non-hermitian hamiltonian"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1063/1.3340896",
      "journal": "Journal of Mathematical Physics",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 51,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": 4101
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 2,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 851039,
      "adsabs": "2010JMP....51c4101C"
    }
  }
}