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This article shows that one can consistently incorporate nonunitary representations of at least one group into the ``ordinary'' nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. This group turns out to be Lorentz group thus giving us an alternative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bojan Bistrovic

In a way paralleling the recently accepted non-Hermitian version of quantum mechanics in its Schr\"{o}dinger representation (working often with the innovative and heuristically productive concept of ${\cal PT}-$symmetry), it is demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Miloslav Znojil

We investigate the PT-symmetry of the quantum group invariant XXZ chain. We show that the PT-operator commutes with the quantum group action and also discuss the transformation properties of the Bethe wavefunction. We exploit the fact that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Christian Korff , Robert A. Weston

Recent progress on nonlinear properties of parity-time ($\cal PT$-) symmetric systems is comprehensively reviewed in this article. $\cal PT$ symmetry started out in non-Hermitian quantum mechanics, where complex potentials obeying $\cal PT$…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-07-20 Vladimir V. Konotop , Jianke Yang , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

Recently developed methods for PT-symmetric models can be applied to quantum-mechanical matrix and vector models. In matrix models, the calculation of all singlet wave functions can be reduced to the solution a one-dimensional PT-symmetric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael C. Ogilvie , Peter N. Meisinger

A series of geometric concepts are formulated for $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum mechanics and they are further unified into one entity, i.e., an extended quantum geometric tensor (QGT). The imaginary part of the extended QGT gives a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Da-Jian Zhang , Qing-hai Wang , Jiangbin Gong

Parity-time ($PT$)-symmetric Hamiltonians exhibit non-unitary dynamical evolution while maintaining real spectra, and offer unique approaches to quantum sensing and entanglement generation. Here we present a method for simulating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Maryam Abbasi , Koray Aydogan , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

Present Hermitian Quantum Theory, i.e. Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory, is revised and replaced by a consistent non-Hermitian formalism called non-Hermitian Quantum Theory (NHQT) or (Anti)Causal Quantum Theory ((A)CQT) after…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kleefeld

We construct PT-symmetric quantum mechanical models with an O(N)-symmetric interaction term of the form $-g(\vec{x}^{2})^{2}/N$. Using functional integral methods, we find the equivalent Hermitian model, which has several unusual features.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-07-12 Peter N. Meisinger , Michael C. Ogilvie

We propose a new class of synthetic optical materials in which the refractive index satisfies $n(-\bx)=-n^*(\bx)$. We term such systems antisymmetric parity-time (APT) structures. Unlike PT-symmetric systems which require balanced gain and…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Li Ge , H. E. Tureci

We introduce a class of PT-symmetric systems which include mutually matched nonlinear loss and gain (inother words, a class of PT-invariant Hamiltonians in which both the harmonic and anharmonic parts are non-Hermitian). For a basic system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrey E. Miroshnichenko , Boris A. Malomed , Yuri S. Kivshar

A class of pseudo-hermitian quantum system with an explicit form of the positive-definite metric in the Hilbert space is presented. The general method involves a realization of the basic canonical commutation relations defining the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-15 Pijush K. Ghosh

Within the framework of the recently proposed formalism using non-hermitean Hamiltonians constrained merely by their PT invariance we describe a new exactly solvable family of the harmonic-oscillator-like potentials with non-equidistant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Miloslav Znojil

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 study the dynamics of correlations in a paradigmatic setup to observe $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric physics: a pair of coupled oscillators, one subject to a gain one to a loss. Starting from a coherent state, quantum correlations (QCs) are…

I briefly argue for logical necessity to incorporate, besides c, hbar, two fundamental length scales in the symmetries associated with the interface of gravitational and quantum realms. Next, in order to clear the proverbial bush, I discuss…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Ahluwalia-Khalilova

The Hilbert space in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is formulated as a linear vector space with a dynamic inner product. The most general PT-symmetric matrix Hamiltonians are constructed for 2*2 and 3*3 cases. In the former case, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Qing-hai Wang , Song-zhi Chia , Jie-hong Zhang

N-site-lattice Hamiltonians H are introduced and perceived as a set of systematic discrete approximants of a certain PT-symmetric square-well-potential model with the real spectrum and with a non-Hermiticity which is localized near the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-15 Miloslav Znojil , Junde Wu

It is well known that nonrelativistic quantum mechanics presents a clear asymmetry between space and time. Much of this asymmetry is attributed to the lack of Lorentz invariance of the theory. Nonetheless, a recent work [Phys. Rev. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Ricardo Ximenes , Eduardo O. Dias

The construction of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric quantum electrodynamics is reviewed. In particular, the massless version of the theory in 1+1 dimensions (the Schwinger model) is solved. Difficulties with unitarity of the $S$-matrix are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Kimball A. Milton , Ines Cavero-Pelaez , Prachi Parashar , K. V. Shajesh , Jef Wagner