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This paper explores quantum field theories with pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians, where PT-symmetric Hamiltonians serve as a special case. In specific regimes, these pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians have real eigenspectra, orthogonal eigenstates,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Esra Sablevice , Peter Millington

Lorentz invariant quantum field theories (QFTs) with fermions in four spacetime dimensions (4D) have a $\mathbb{Z}_4$ symmetry provided there exists a basis of operators in the QFT where all operators have even operator dimension, $d$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Christopher W. Murphy

Anti-Hermitian mass terms are considered, in addition to Hermitian ones, for PT-symmetric complex-scalar and fermionic field theories. In both cases, the Lagrangian can be written in a manifestly symmetric form in terms of the PT-conjugate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-02 Jean Alexandre , Peter Millington , Dries Seynaeve

Summation of the perturbation series for the Gell-Mann--Low function \beta(g) of \phi^4 theory leads to the asymptotics \beta(g)=\beta_\infty g^\alpha at g\to\infty, where \alpha\approx 1 for space dimensions d=2,3,4. The natural hypothesis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 I. M. Suslov

We show that scalar quantum field theory in four Euclidean dimensions with global $O(N)^3$ symmetry and imaginary tetrahedral coupling is asymptotically free and bounded from below in the large-N limit. While the Hamiltonian is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-01 Jürgen Berges , Razvan Gurau , Thimo Preis

We study a general class of PT-symmetric tridiagonal Hamiltonians with purely imaginary interaction terms in the quasi-hermitian representation of quantum mechanics. Our general Hamiltonian encompasses many previously studied lattice models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Frantisek Ruzicka

Spectra of the second derivative operators corresponding to the special PT-symmetric point interactions are studied. The results are partly the completion of those obtained in [1]. The particular PT-symmetric point interactions causing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Petr Siegl

In ${\cal PT}-$symmetric quantum mechanics one of the most characteristic mathematical features of the formalism is the explicit Hamiltonian-dependence of the physical Hilbert space of states ${\cal H}={\cal H}(H)$. Some of the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Miloslav Znojil

We consider hamiltonian models representing an arbitrary number of spin $1/2$ fermion quantum fields interacting through arbitrary processes of creation or annihilation of particles. The fields may be massive or massless. The interaction…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Benjamin Alvarez , Jérémy Faupin , Jean-Claude Guillot

A class of two-dimensional field theories with exponential interactions is introduced. The interaction depends on two ``coupling'' matrices and is sufficiently general to include all Toda field theories existing in the literature. Lie point…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Lafortune , P. Winternitz , L. Martina

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

This is a brief summary of our studies of quantum field theories in a special limit in which the instantons are present, the anti-instantons are absent, and the perturbative corrections are reduced to one-loop. We analyze the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Frenkel , A. Losev , N. Nekrasov

General point interactions for the second derivative operator in one dimension are studied. In particular, ${\mathcal P \mathcal T}$-self-adjoint point interactions with the support at the origin and at points $\pm l$ are considered. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Albeverio , S. M. Fei , P. Kurasov

The theory of a two-level $\eta$-Hermitian Hamiltonian with $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry is reviewed and extended to include open system dynamics. A first-principles derivation of the generalized Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

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

We give an indication that gravity coupled to an infinite number of fields might be a renormalizable theory. A toy model with an infinite number of interacting fermions in four-dimentional space-time is analyzed. The model is finite at any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 N. Itzhaki

The Hartree ensemble approximation is studied in the ``symmetric phase'' of 1+1 dimensional lambda phi^4 theory. In comparison with the ``broken phase'' studied previously, it is shown that the dynamical evolution of observables such as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mischa Salle , Jan Smit

The PT-symmetry breaking, consistent hamiltonian interactions in all $n\geq 4$ spacetime dimensions that can be added to an abelian BF model involving a set of scalar fields, two sorts of one-forms, and a system of two-forms are obtained by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 E. M. Cioroianu , S. C. Sararu

The free Schroedinger theory in d space dimensions is a non-relativistic conformal field theory. The interacting non-linear theory preserves this symmetry in specific numbers of dimensions at the classical (tree) level. This holds in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. O. de Kok , J. W. van Holten

The motivations for the construction of an 8-component representation of fermion fields based on a two dimensional representation of time reversal transformation and CPT invariance are discussed. Some of the elementary properties of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Ying