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We show that the analyticity and crossing symmetry of the S-matrix, together with the optical theorem, impose restrictions on the renormalisation group evolution of dimension-eight operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-07 Mikael Chala

Describing systems with non-Hermitian (NH) operators remains a challenge in quantum theory due to instabilities (e.g., exceptional points and decoherence) arising from interactions with the environment. We propose a framework to express the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Priyanshi Bhasin , Tanmoy Das

Non-perturbative limitations on low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) based on the characteristics of high-energy theory are provided by the analyticity of the flat-space version of the S-matrix. Although the analyticity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Sayantan Choudhury

Update: A time-independent $n\times n$ PT-symmetric (and symmetric) Hamiltonian is diagonalizable since it has all distinct real eigenvalues and the resulting diagonal matrix is a real symmetric matrix. The diagonalization results an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 Sungwook Lee , Lawrence R. Mead

We show that in one dimension the transfer matrix M of any scattering potential v coincides with the S-matrix of an associated time-dependent non-Hermitian 2 x 2 matrix Hamiltonian H(\tau). If v is real-valued, H(\tau) is pseudo-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ali Mostafazadeh

This paper proposes to broaden the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics. Ordinarily, one imposes the condition $H^\dagger=H$ on the Hamiltonian, where $\dagger$ represents the mathematical operation of complex conjugation and matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Carl Bender , Stefan Boettcher , Peter Meisinger

We consider a two-parameter non hermitean quantum-mechanical hamiltonian that is invariant under the combined effects of parity and time reversal transformation. Numerical investigation shows that for some values of the potential parameters…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. M. Fernandez , R. Guardiola , J. Ros , M. Znojil

In non-commutative field theories conventional wisdom is that the unitarity is non-compatible with the perturbation analysis when time is involved in the non-commutative coordinates. However, as suggested by Bahns et.al. recently, the root…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Chaiho Rim , Jae Hyung Yee

We study the algebraic formulation of exact factorizable S-matrices for integrable two-dimensional field theories. We show that different formulations of the S-matrices for the Potts field theory are essentially equivalent, in the sense…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul Fendley , Nicholas Read

We derive a simple relation between the Mellin amplitude for AdS/CFT correlation functions and the bulk S-Matrix in the flat spacetime limit, proving a conjecture of Penedones. As a consequence of the Operator Product Expansion, the Mellin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan

The completely positive maps, a generalization of the nonnegative matrices, are a well-studied class of maps from $n\times n$ matrices to $m\times m$ matrices. The existence of the operator analogues of doubly stochastic scalings of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Cole Franks

Version 1: The well known Eckart's singular s-wave potential is PT-symmetrically regularized and continued to the whole real line. The new model remains exactly solvable and its bound states remain proportional to Jacobi polynomials. Its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Miloslav Znojil

Manifestly non-Hermitian quantum graphs with real spectra are introduced and shown tractable as a new class of phenomenological models with several appealing descriptive properties. For illustrative purposes, just equilateral star-graphs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Miloslav Znojil

The analytic structure of the S-matrix of singular quantum mechanics is examined within a multichannel framework, with primary focus on its dependence with respect to a parameter ($\Omega$) that determines the boundary conditions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Horacio E. Camblong , Luis N. Epele , Huner Fanchiotti , Carlos A. Garcia Canal

Can the S-matrix be complexified in a way consistent with causality? Since the 1960's, the affirmative answer to this question has been well-understood for $2 \to 2$ scattering of the lightest particle in theories with a mass gap at low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-05 Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir , Sebastian Mizera

In this paper, we establish a connection between the formalism of $\mathcal{R}$-transforms for non-Hermitian random matrices and the framework of spherical integrals, using the replica method. This connection was previously proved in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-15 Pierre Bousseyroux , Marc Potters

We note that, though nonanticommutative deformations of Minkowski supersymmetric theories do not respect the reality condition and seem to lead to non-Hermitian Hamiltonians H, the latter belong to the class of crypto-Hermitian (or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-01-18 A. V. Smilga

This paper investigates finite-dimensional representations of PT-symmetric Hamiltonians. In doing so, it clarifies some of the claims made in earlier papers on PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. In particular, it is shown here that there are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Carl M. Bender , Peter N. Meisinger , Qinghai Wang

The modern S-Matrix Bootstrap provides non-perturbative bounds on low-energy aspects of scattering amplitudes, leveraging the constraints of unitarity, analyticity and crossing. Typically, the solutions saturating such bounds also saturate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , José Pereira

S-matrix is one of the fundamental observables of the quantum theory of relativistic particles. There have been attempts to understand the quantum dynamics of relativistic particles abstractly in terms of S-matrix bypassing a Lagrangian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Parthiv Haldar