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I do know that supposedly the time-evolution operator is unitary.
At the same time, I have come across a peculiar case during a calculation.
Suppose that I have a basis that is complete (and not overcomplete), and element of Hilbert-space at t=0.
For some reason, the solution of the Schrödinger-equation is significantly simple, but only if I allow each of the basis-elements to evolve non-unitarily.
The <\Psi|\Psi> norme oscillates in time, but it is always finite, and the states always remain normalisable.
I do know that certain calculations like this exists, for example in nuclear physics, or in certain effective descriptions.
Yet I still would like to know whether this kind of dynamics is mathematically allowed, and whether I can just calculate expectation values in such cases as <\Psi|A|\Psi>/<\Psi|\Psi>.
At the same time, I have come across a peculiar case during a calculation.
Suppose that I have a basis that is complete (and not overcomplete), and element of Hilbert-space at t=0.
For some reason, the solution of the Schrödinger-equation is significantly simple, but only if I allow each of the basis-elements to evolve non-unitarily.
The <\Psi|\Psi> norme oscillates in time, but it is always finite, and the states always remain normalisable.
I do know that certain calculations like this exists, for example in nuclear physics, or in certain effective descriptions.
Yet I still would like to know whether this kind of dynamics is mathematically allowed, and whether I can just calculate expectation values in such cases as <\Psi|A|\Psi>/<\Psi|\Psi>.