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The phenomenon of quantum phase transition is considered in the special case in which the evolution laws remain unitary and in which the bound-state energies remain observable. The conventional Hermiticity of observables is lost at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Miloslav Znojil

Instantons play a crucial role in understanding non-perturbative dynamics in quantum field theories, including those with spontaneously broken gauge symmetries. In the broken phase, finite-size instanton-like configurations are no longer…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-06 Takafumi Aoki , Masahiro Ibe , Satoshi Shirai

An invariant of SPT-phases with on-site finite group $G$ symmetry for two-dimensional Fermion systems was derived in [O]. This invariant is doubled compared to the conjectured one from the invertible quantum field theory. We show that if we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Yoshiko Ogata

We construct an ultraviolet-complete, local, and unitary quantum field theory in 2+1 dimensions that exhibits spontaneous breaking of space-time parity, persisting to arbitrarily high temperatures. The theory is defined by a renormalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-29 Bilal Hawashin , Michael M. Scherer , Michael Smolkin , Lev Yung

We study conformal field theory in $d=1$ space-time dimensions. We derive a dispersion relation for the 4-point correlation function of identical bosons and fermions, in terms of the double discontinuity. This extends the conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-10 Dean Carmi , Sudip Ghosh , Trakshu Sharma

In the paper [L. Fei et al., JHEP 09 (2015) 076] a cubic field theory of a scalar field $\sigma$ and two anticommuting scalar fields, $\theta$ and $\bar \theta$, was formulated. In $6-\epsilon$ dimensions it has a weakly coupled fixed point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-15 Igor R. Klebanov

We consider a 2d anisotropic SHO with {\bf ixy} interaction and a 3d SHO in an imaginary magnetic field with $\vec\mu_l$.$\vec B$ interaction to study the $PT$ phase transition analytically in higher dimension.Unbroken $PT$ symmetry in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Bhabani Prasad Mandal , Brijesh Kumar Mourya , Rajesh Kumar Yadav

The "Hermitizability" problem of quantum theory is explained, discussed and illustrated via the discrete-lattice cryptohermitian quantum graphs. In detail, the description of the domain ${\cal D}$ of admissible parameters is provided for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Miloslav Znojil

We study certain linear and antilinear symmetry generators and involution operators associated with pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians and show that the theory of pseudo-Hermitian operators provides a simple explanation for the recent results of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ali Mostafazadeh

We discuss non-Hermitian field theories where the spectrum of the Hamiltonian involves only real energies. We make three observations. (i) The theories obtained from supersymmetric theories by nonanticommutative deformations belong in many…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. V. Smilga

A new proof is given for why the non-Hermitian, PT-Invariant cubic oscillator with imaginary coupling has real eigenvalues. The proof consists of two steps. In the first step, it is shown that for many PT-Invariant Hamiltonians, one can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Scott Chapman

The IR/UV mixing and the violation of unitarity are two of the most intriguing aspects of noncommutative quantum field theories. In this paper the relation between these two phenomena is explained and established. We start out by showing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Chong-Sun Chu , Jerzy Lukierski , Wojtek J. Zakrzewski

It can be shown using operator techniques that the non-Hermitian $PT$-symmetric quantum mechanical Hamiltonian with a "wrong-sign" quartic potential $-gx^4$ is equivalent to a Hermitian Hamiltonian with a positive quartic potential together…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. F. Jones , J. Mateo , R. J. Rivers

Many non-Hermitian but PT-symmetric theories are known to have a real positive spectrum. Since the action is complex for there theories, Monte Carlo methods do not apply. In this paper the first field-theoretic method for numerical…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-07 Claude Bernard , Van M. Savage

Finding the precise correspondence between lattice operators and the continuum fields that describe their long-distance properties is a largely open problem for strongly interacting critical points. Here we solve this problem essentially…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-29 Roger S. K. Mong , David J. Clarke , Jason Alicea , Netanel H. Lindner , Paul Fendley

We discuss instantons on noncommutative four-dimensional Euclidean space. In commutative case one can consider instantons directly on Euclidean space, then we should restrict ourselves to the gauge fields that are gauge equivalent to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Albert Schwarz

We study the renormalisation of the non-Hermitian $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric scalar field theory with the interaction $\phi^2(i\phi)^\varepsilon$ using the Wilsonian approach and without any expansion in $\varepsilon$. Specifically,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Wen-Yuan Ai , Jean Alexandre , Sarben Sarkar

We apply the Dynamical Mean Field (DMFT) approximation to the real, scalar phi^4 quantum field theory. By comparing to lattice Monte Carlo calculations, perturbation theory and standard mean field theory, we test the quality of the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2013-12-16 Oscar Akerlund , Philippe de Forcrand , Antoine Georges , Philipp Werner

Many manifestly non-Hermitian Hamiltonians (typically, PT-symmetric complex anharmonic oscillators) possess a strictly real, "physical" bound-state spectrum. This means that they are (quasi-)Hermitian with respect to a suitable non-standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-30 Miloslav Znojil

The relativistic problem of fermions subject to a PT-symmetric potential in the presence of position-dependent mass is reinvestigated. The influence of the PT-symmetric potential in the continuity equation and in the orthonormalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-24 Luis B. Castro