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Pseudo-Hermitian (including $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric) field theories support phenomenology that cannot be replicated in standard Hermitian theories. We describe a concrete example in which the vortex solutions that are realised in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-19 R. A. Battye , S. J. Cotterill , P. Millington

This paper investigates the thermodynamics of a large class of non-Hermitian, $PT$-symmetric oscillators, whose energy spectrum is entirely real. The spectrum is estimated by second-order WKB approximation, which turns out to be very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 H. F. Jones , E. S. Moreira

We investigate the effective potential of the $PT$ symmetric $(-g\phi^{4}) $ field theory, perturbatively as well as non-perturbatively. For the perturbative calculations, we first use normal ordering to obtain the first order effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Abouzeid M. Shalaby

The local reggeon field theory is studied perturbatively taking advantage of the PT symmetry in the Hamiltonian formulation. In the lowest non trivial order we show that the pomeron interactions renormalize the slope. In the same order we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 M. A. Braun , G. P. Vacca

We present fermionic model based on symmetric resonant tunneling heterostructure, which demonstrates spontaneous symmetry breaking in respect to combined operations of space inversion (P) and time reversal (T). PT-symmetry breaking…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-20 A. A. Gorbatsevich , N. M. Shubin

Having started with the general formulation of the quantum theory of the real scalar field (QFT) in the general Riemannian space--time $ V_{1,3} $, the general--covariant quasinonrelativistic quantum mechanics of a point-like spinless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

We extend to a non-Hermitian fermionic quantum field theory with PT symmetry our previous discussion of second quantization, discrete symmetry transformations, and inner products in a scalar field theory [arXiv:2006.06656]. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-12 Jean Alexandre , John Ellis , Peter Millington

In 1998, Carl Bender challenged the perceived wisdom of quantum mechanics that the Hamiltonian operator describing any quantum mechanical system has to be Hermitian. He showed that Hamiltonians that are invariant under combined parity-time…

We provide a systematic procedure to relate a three dimensional q-deformed oscillator algebra to the corresponding algebra satisfied by canonical variables describing noncommutative spaces. The large number of possible free parameters in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-11 Sanjib Dey , Andreas Fring , Laure Gouba

One of the simplest examples of a PT-symmetric quantum system is the scaling Yang-Lee model, a quantum field theory with cubic interaction and purely imaginary coupling. We give a historical review of some facts about this model in d <= 2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-02 Patrick Dorey , Clare Dunning , Roberto Tateo

We examine the properties and consequences of pseudo-supersymmetry for quantum systems admitting a pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonian. We explore the Witten index of pseudo-supersymmetry and show that every pair of diagonalizable (not necessarily…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ali Mostafazadeh

It is generally believed that Parity-Time (PT)-symmetry breaking occurs when eigenvalues or both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coincide. However, we show that this well-accepted picture of PT-symmetry breaking is incorrect. Instead, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-06 Ruili Zhang , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao , Jian Liu

In the context of two particularly interesting non-Hermitian models in quantum mechanics we explore the relationship between the original Hamiltonian H and its Hermitian counterpart h, obtained from H by a similarity transformation, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. F. Jones

In this paper, a non-trivial system governed by a continuum PT-symmetric Hamiltonian is discussed. We show that this Hamiltonian is iso-spectral to the simple harmonic oscillator. We find its eigenfunctions and the path in the complex plane…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Lawrence Mead , David Garfinkle , Sungwook Lee

To lowest order of perturbation theory we show that an equivalence can be established between a $\cal PT$-symmetric generalized quartic anharmonic oscillator model and a Hermitian position-dependent mass Hamiltonian $h$. An important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Bagchi , A. Banerjee , C. Quesne

We investigate properties of the most general PT-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian of cubic order in the annihilation and creation operators as a ten parameter family. For various choices of the parameters we systematically construct an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-21 Paulo E. G. Assis , Andreas Fring

We give two characterization theorems for pseudo-Hermitian (possibly nondiagonalizable) Hamiltonians with a discrete spectrum that admit a block-diagonalization with finite-dimensional diagonal blocks. In particular, we prove that for such…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ali Mostafazadeh

We have constructed a set of non-Hermitian operators that satisfy the commutation relations of the SO(3)-Lie algebra. It is shown that this operators generate rotations in the configuration space and not in the momentum space but in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-01-12 Juan M. Romero , R. Bernal-Jaquez , O. Gonzalez-Gaxiola

We introduce the one-dimensional PT-symmetric Schrodinger equation, with complex potentials in the form of the canonical superoscillatory and suboscillatory functions known in quantum mechanics and optics. While the suboscillatory-like…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yaniv Eliezer , Alon Bahabad , Boris A. Malomed

Parity-time ($PT$) symmetric Hamiltonians are generally non-Hermitian and give rise to exotic behaviour in quantum systems at exceptional points, where eigenvectors coalesce. The recent realisation of $PT$-symmetric Hamiltonians in quantum…