We discuss in which sense the so-called regular pseudo-bosons, recently introduced by Trifonov and analyzed in some detail by the author, are related to ordinary bosons. We repeat the same analysis for pseudo-bosons , and analyze the role played by certain intertwining operators, which may be bounded or not.
In the past years several extensions of the canonical commutation relations have been proposed by different people in different contexts and some interesting physics and mathematics have been deduced. Here, we review some recent results on the so-called pseudo-bosons. They arise from a special deformation of the canonical commutation relation [a,a †]= ll, which is replaced by [a,b]=ll, with b not necessarily equal to a †. We start discussing some of their mathematical properties and then we discuss several examples.
We discuss how a q-mutation relation can be deformed replacing a pair of conjugate operators with two other and unrelated operators, as it is done in the construction of pseudo-fermions, pseudo-bosons and truncated pseudo-bosons. This deformation involves interesting mathematical problems and suggests possible applications to pseudo-hermitian quantum mechanics. We construct bi-coherent states associated to D -pseudo-quons, and we show that they share many of their properties with ordinary coherent states. In particular, we find conditions for these states to exist, to be eigenstates of suitable annihilation operators and to give rise to a resolution of the identity. Two examples are discussed in details, one connected to an unbounded similarity map, and the other to a bounded map.
We consider the Hamiltonian H of a particle in one dimension with a position dependent mass for which we apply the recent strategy of the so-called {\em abstract ladder operators}, in the attempt to find its eigenvalues and eigenvectors. We don't assume that H is self-adjoint, while we focus on the case of a factorizable operator. We show then that pseudo-bosonic operators play a relevant role in this analysis, and we construct bi-coherent states attached to these operators. Explicit examples are discussed.