PT symmetry in classical and quantum statistical mechanics

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Authors Michael C. Ogilvie, Peter N. Meisinger

Publication date 21 August 2013

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A. Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5077

zbMATH Keywords

critical phenomena\(\mathcal{PT}\) symmetrysign problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: PT-symmetric Hamiltonians and transfer matrices arise naturally in statistical mechanics. These classical and quantum models often require the use of complex or negative weights and thus fall outside of the conventional equilibrium statistical mechanics of Hermitian systems. PT-symmetric models form a natural class where the partition function is necessarily real, but not necessarily positive. The correlation functions of these models display a much richer set of behaviors than Hermitian systems, displaying sinusoidally-modulated exponential decay, as in a dense fluid, or even sinusoidal modulation without decay. Classical spin models with PT symmetry include Z(N) models with a complex magnetic field, the chiral Potts model and the anisotropic next-nearest-neighbor Ising (ANNNI) model. Quantum many-body problems with a non-zero chemical potential have a natural PT-symmetric representation related to the sign problem. Two-dimensional QCD with heavy quarks at non-zero chemical potential can be solved by diagonalizing an appropriate PT-symmetric Hamiltonian.

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