Physical Review A

Comment on “Quartic anharmonic oscillator and non-Hermiticity”

Alí Mostafazadeh

Published Apr 8, 2005• 0 citations

Abstract

The analysis of the paper by J.-L. Chen et al. [Phys. Rev. A 67, 012101 (2003)] suffers from a conceptual error. Its results contradict some well-established mathematical facts and are incorrect.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.71.046101

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