Physics – Mathematical Physics
Scientific paper
1999-05-25
J. Phys. A _34_, 2607 (2001)
Physics
Mathematical Physics
REVTeX, 25 pages, submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Scientific paper
10.1088/0305-4470/34/12/308
Dissipative systems can be described in terms of non-hermitian hamiltonians H, whose left eigenvectors f^j and right eigenvectors f_j form a bi-orthogonal system. Bi-orthogonal systems could suffer from two difficulties. (a) If the eigenvectors do not span the whole space, then H can only be diagonalized to blocks (the Jordan-block problem). (b) Normalization would not be possible and many familiar-looking formulas would fail if (f^j,f_j) = 0 for some j (the orthonormalization problem). Waves in open systems provide a well-founded realization of a bi-orthogonal system, and it is shown that these two problems can indeed occur and are both related to higher-order poles in the frequency-domain Green's function. The resolution is then given by introducing a generalized duality transformation involving extra basis vectors, whose time evolution is modified by polynomials in the time t. One thus obtains a nontrivial extension of the bi-orthogonal formalism for dissipative systems.
den Brink Alec Maassen van
Young Kenneth K.
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