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arXiv:quant-ph/0702148

Quantum Mechanics with Complex Time : A Comment to the Paper by Rajeev

Kazuyuki Fujii

Published Feb 15, 2007• 4 citations
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Abstract

In (quant-ph/0701141) Rajeev studied quantization of the damped simple harmonic oscillator and introduced a complex-valued Hamiltonian (which is normal). In this note we point out that the quantization is interpreted as a quantum mechanics with {\bf complex time}. We also present a problem on quantization of classical control systems.
DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0702148

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