Two patterns of PT-symmetry breakdown in a non-numerical six-state simulation
Abstract
Three-parametric family of non-Hermitian but symmetric six-by-six matrix Hamiltonians is considered. The symmetry remains spontaneously unbroken (i.e., the spectrum of the bound-state energies remains real so that the unitary-evolution stability of the quantum system in question is shown guaranteed) in a non-empty domain of parameters . The construction of the exceptional-point (EP) boundary of the physical domain is preformed using an innovative non-numerical implicit-function-construction strategy. The topology of the resulting EP boundary of the spontaneous symmetry breakdown (i.e., of the physical "horizon of stability") is shown similar to its much more elementary predecessor. Again, it is shown to consist of two components, viz., of the region of the quantum phase transitions of the first kind (during which at least some of the energies become complex) and of the quantum phase transitions of the second kind (during which some of the level pairs only cross but remain real).
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@article{arxiv.1804.07324,
title = {Two patterns of PT-symmetry breakdown in a non-numerical six-state simulation},
author = {Miloslav Znojil and Denis I. Borisov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.07324},
year = {2018}
}
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