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Flavour oscillations in pseudo-Hermitian quantum theories

Quantum Physics 2023-11-09 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

This note summarises recent progress in the formulation of flavour mixing and oscillations in pseudo-Hermitian quantum theories with non-Hermitian mass mixing matrices. Such non-Hermitian quantum theories are made viable by the existence of a discrete anti-linear symmetry of the Hamiltonian, which ensures that states have real energies. We describe oscillation and survival probabilities in a non-Hermitian two-state quantum mechanical system that are consistent with unitarity, and highlight features of these pseudo-Hermitian flavour oscillations that are unique compared to their Hermitian counterparts.

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@article{arxiv.2311.04839,
  title  = {Flavour oscillations in pseudo-Hermitian quantum theories},
  author = {Robert Mason and Peter Millington and Esra Sablevice},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.04839},
  year   = {2023}
}

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6 pages, PoS format, contribution to the proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2023), 21-25 August 2023, Hamburg, Germany