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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Nonunitary evolution of the dressed states coupled with a continuum: possible optical verification of the true non-Hermitian Hamiltonian

Vl. V. Kocharovsky, Vl. V. Kocharovsky, S. A. Litvak, I. A. Shereshevsky, E. A. Derishev

Published May 10, 1996• 0 citations
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Abstract

The general Fano-Friedrichs Hamiltonian is diagonalized via a proper extraction of all dressed decaying eigenquasistates with complex eigenquasienergies. Their non-adiabatic crossing is described using the true truncated non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with applications to DC + AC non-steady Stark effect.
DOI
10.1117/12.239484

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