Mathematical and physical meaning of the crossings of energy levels in PT-symmetric systems

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-31356-6_13MaRDI QIDQ4555429zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miloslav Znojil, Denis Borisov

Publication date 20 November 2018

Published in Springer Proceedings in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.4876

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical regimeexceptional pointphase transitionquantum phase transitionreal spectrum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hilbert and pre-Hilbert spaces: geometry and topology (including spaces with semidefinite inner product) (46C05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12)

Abstract: Unavoided crossings of the energy levels due to a variation of a real parameter are studied. It is found that after the quantum system in question passes through one of its energy-crossing points {it alias} Kato's exceptional points (EP), its physical interpretation may {em dramatically} change even when the crossing energies themselves do not complexify. The anomalous physical phase-transition mechanism of the change is revealed, attributed to the EP-related mathematics and illustrated via several exactly solvable matrix toy models.

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