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In PT quantum mechanics a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, that the Hamiltonian must be hermitian, is replaced by another set of requirements, including notably symmetry under PT, where P denotes parity and T denotes time…

The physical condition that the expectation values of physical observables are real quantities is used to give a precise formulation of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. A mathematically rigorous proof is given to establish the physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ali Mostafazadeh

The direct observability of coordinates x is often lost in PT-symmetric quantum theories. A manifestly non-local Hilbert-space metric $\Theta$ enters the double-integral normalization of wave functions $\psi(x)$ there. In the context of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-02 Miloslav Znojil

We prove that in finite dimensions, a Parity-Time (PT)-symmetric Hamiltonian is necessarily pseudo-Hermitian regardless of whether it is diagonalizable or not. This result is different from Mostafazadeh's, which requires the Hamiltonian to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ruili Zhang , Hong Qin , Jianyuan Xiao

Stability of soliton families in one-dimensional nonlinear Schroedinger equations with non-parity-time (PT)-symmetric complex potentials is investigated numerically. It is shown that these solitons can be linearly stable in a wide range of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-11-23 Jianke Yang , Sean Nixon

In the framework of perturbation theory the reality of the perturbed eigenvalues of a class of $\PT$symmetric Hamiltonians is proved using stability techniques. We apply this method to $\PT$symmetric unperturbed Hamiltonians perturbed by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Caliceti , F. Cannata , S. Graffi

Currently, it has been claimed that certain Hermitian Hamiltonians have parity (P) and they are PT-invariant. We propose generalized definitions of time-reversal operator (T) and orthonormality such that all Hermitian Hamiltonians are P, T,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zafar Ahmed

A real potential Hamiltonian has real energy bound states below the scattering threshold and complex energy resonances above it. Scattering states are not square integrable, being instead delta function normalized. This lack of square…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Philip D. Mannheim

When a non-hermitian hamiltonian has a certain symmetry, such as the PT pseudo-hermiticity, it is still possible that the hamiltonian has a real spectrum. In this note, by adding an imaginary potential proportional to ip_1p_2 to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Jun-Qing Li , Yan-Gang Miao

We find that a broken PT-symmetry operator when interacts with suitable Hermitian operator, new system becomes completely un-broken PT symmetry. Further on varying the contribution of Hermiticity one can delay or control the broken…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 Biswanath Rath

We show that a polynomial H(N) of degree N of a harmonic oscillator hamiltonian allows us to devise a fully solvable continuous quantum system for which the first N discrete energy eigenvalues can be chosen at will. In general such a choice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Ole Steuernagel , Andrei Klimov

This paper presents an underlying analytical relationship between the $\mathcal{PT}$-pseudo-norm associated with the $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric Hamiltonian $H = p^2+ V(q)$ and the Stokes multiplier of the differential equation corresponding…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 D. T. Trinh

We study the Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics for the discrete system. This paper gives an exact analytic single-particle solution for an $N$-site tight-binding chain with two conjugated imaginary potentials $\pm i\gamma $ at two end sites,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-04 L. Jin , Z. Song

Exact solvability of the discretized N-point version of the PT-symmetric square-well model is pointed out. Its wave functions are found proportional to the classical Tshebyshev polynomials of a complex argument. At all N a compact secular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil

All of the PT-symmetric potentials that have been studied so far have been local. In this paper nonlocal PT-symmetric separable potentials of the form $V(x,y)=i\epsilon[U(x)U(y)-U(-x)U(-y)]$, where $U(x)$ is real, are examined. Two specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Carl M. Bender , Hugh F. Jones

We draw attention to the fact that a Hermitian matrix is always diagonalizable and has real discrete spectrum whereas the Hermitian Schr{\"o}dinger Hamiltonian: $H=p^2/2\mu+V(x)$, may not be so. For instance when $V(x)=x, x^3, -x^2$, $H$…

General Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Zafar Ahmed , Mohammad Irfan , Achint Kumar , Ankush Singhal

We introduce $\hat{H}$-eigenvalue for $2m$-th order $n$-dimensional complex tensors. Then we determine several checkable inclusion sets for $\hat{H}$-eigenvalues and derive some criterions for the Hermitian positive definiteness…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Haojie Chen , Yang Yang

Harmonic oscillator, in 2-dimensional noncommutative phase space with non-vanishing momentum-momentum commutators, is studied using an algebraic approach. The corresponding eigenvalue problem is solved and discussed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-08-09 Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou , Dine Ousmane Samary

Within CPT-symmetric quantum mechanics the most elementary differential form of the charge operator C is assumed. A closed-form integrability of the related coupled differential self-consistency conditions and a natural embedding of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-18 Emanuela Caliceti , Francesco Cannata , Miloslav Znojil , Alberto Ventura

Studies of many-body non-Hermitian parity-time (PT)-symmetric quantum systems are attracting a lot of interest due to their relevance in research areas ranging from quantum optics and continuously monitored dynamics to Euclidean wormholes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 Antonio M. García-García , Lucas Sá , Jacobus J. M. Verbaarschot , Can Yin