  Quantization of a damped harmonic oscillator leads to so called Bateman's
dual system. The corresponding Bateman's Hamiltonian, being a self-adjoint
operator, displays the discrete family of complex eigenvalues. We show that
they correspond to the poles of energy eigenvectors and the corresponding
resolvent operator when continued to the complex energy plane. Therefore, the
corresponding generalized eigenvectors may be interpreted as resonant states
which are responsible for the irreversible quantum dynamics of a damped
harmonic oscillator.
