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In a recent paper Bender and Mannheim showed that the unequal-frequency fourth-order derivative Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator model has a realization in which the energy eigenvalues are real and bounded below, the Hilbert-space inner product is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Carl M. Bender , Philip D. Mannheim

The quantum-field model described by non-Hermitian, but a ${\cal PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonian is considered. It is shown by the algebraic way that the limiting of the physical mass value $m \leq m_{max}= {m_1}^2/2m_2$ takes place for the case…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-24 V. N. Rodionov

Time symmetry in quantum mechanics, where the current quantum state is determined jointly by both the past and the future, offers a more comprehensive description of physical phenomena. This symmetry facilitates both forward and backward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-13 Shijie Wei , Jingwei Wen , Xiaogang Li , Peijie Chang , Bozhi Wang , Franco Nori , Guilu Long

Quantum computing's potential for exponential speedup is fundamentally limited by decoherence, a phenomenon arising from environmental interactions. Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, particularly $PT$-symmetric systems, offers a novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Duttatreya , Ipsika Mohanty , Sanjib Dey

A noteworthy discovery is that the minimal evolution time is smaller for parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetric systems compared to Hermitian setups. Moreover, there is a significant acceleration of two-qubit quantum entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-02 B. -B. Liu , Shi-Lei Su , Y. -L. Zuo , Qiongyi He , Gang Chen , F. Nori , H. Jing

Recently, much research has been carried out on Hamiltonians that are not Hermitian but are symmetric under space-time reflection, that is, Hamiltonians that exhibit PT symmetry. Investigations of the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl M. Bender , Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston , Bernhard K. Meister

PT-symmetric quantum theory was originally proposed with the aim of extending standard quantum theory by relaxing the Hermiticity constraint on Hamiltonians. However, no such extension has been formulated that consistently describes states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-26 Abhijeet Alase , Salini Karuvade , Carlo Maria Scandolo

One of the postulates of quantum mechanics is that the Hamiltonian is Hermitian, as this guarantees that the eigenvalues are real. Recently there has been an interest in asking if $H^\dagger = H$ is a necessary condition, and has lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Damien Martin

Update: A time-independent $n\times n$ PT-symmetric (and symmetric) Hamiltonian is diagonalizable since it has all distinct real eigenvalues and the resulting diagonal matrix is a real symmetric matrix. The diagonalization results an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Sungwook Lee , Lawrence R. Mead

It has been argued that it is incompatible to maintain unitary time-evolution for time-dependent non-Hermitian Hamiltonians when the metric operator is explicitly time-dependent. We demonstrate here that the time-dependent Dyson equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-27 Andreas Fring , Miled H. Y. Moussa

The physics of systems that cannot be described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian, has been attracting a great deal of attention in recent years, motivated by their nontrivial responses and by a plethora of applications for sensing, lasing, energy…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-16 Alex Krasnok , Nikita Nefedkin , Andrea Alu

Open classical and quantum systems with effective parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) symmetry, over the past five years, have shown tremendous promise for advances in lasers, sensing, and non-reciprocal devices. And yet, how such effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 Archak Purkayastha , Manas Kulkarni , Yogesh N. Joglekar

Non-Hermitian PT-symmetric quantum-mechanical Hamiltonians generally exhibit a phase transition that separates two parametric regions, (i) a region of unbroken PT symmetry in which the eigenvalues are all real, and (ii) a region of broken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-11 Carl M. Bender , David J. Weir

Quantum systems governed by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with $\PT$ symmetry are special in having real energy eigenvalues bounded below and unitary time evolution. We argue that $\PT$ symmetry may also be important and present at the level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-30 Carl M Bender , Alexander Felski , S P Klevansky , Sarben Sarkar

We investigate the problem of fast-forwarding quantum evolution, whereby the dynamics of certain quantum systems can be simulated with gate complexity that is sublinear in the evolution time. We provide a definition of fast-forwarding that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Shouzhen Gu , Rolando D. Somma , Burak Şahinoğlu

In a remarkable development Bender and coworkers have shown that it is possible to formulate quantum mechanics consistently even if the Hamiltonian and other observables are not Hermitian. Their formulation, dubbed PT quantum mechanics,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Katherine Jones-Smith , Harsh Mathur

We show that a quantum system possessing an exact antilinear symmetry, in particular PT-symmetry, is equivalent to a quantum system having a Hermitian Hamiltonian. We construct the unitary operator relating an arbitrary non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ali Mostafazadeh

The Hamiltonian H specifies the energy levels and time evolution of a quantum theory. A standard axiom of quantum mechanics requires that H be Hermitian because Hermiticity guarantees that the energy spectrum is real and that time evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Carl M. Bender

A non-Hermitian PT-symmetric system can have full real spectrum but does not ensure probability preserving time evolution, in contrast to that of a Hermitian system. We present a non-Hermitian two-band model, which is comprised of dimerized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-07 W. H. Hu , L. Jin , Y. Li , Z. Song

The $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian systems have been widely studied and explored both in theory and in experiment these years due to various interesting features. In this work, we focus on the dynamical features of a triple-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Jingwei Wen , Chao Zheng , Zhangdong Ye , Tao Xin , Guilu Long