ExactPT-symmetry is equivalent to Hermiticity

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/25/312zbMATH Open1048.81041arXivquant-ph/0304080OpenAlexW3101265528MaRDI QIDQ4467952FDOQ4467952

Authors: Ali Mostafazadeh 

Publication date: 10 June 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 Hamiltonian with exact PT-symmetry to a Hermitian Hamiltonian. We apply our general results to PT-symmetry in finite-dimensions and give the explicit form of the above-mentioned unitary operator and Hermitian Hamiltonian in two dimensions. Our findings lead to the conjecture that non-Hermitian CPT-symmetric field theories are equivalent to certain nonlocal Hermitian field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304080

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetry and quantum mechanics (81Q60) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Covariant wave equations in quantum theory, relativistic quantum mechanics (81R20) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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