A return to observability near exceptional points in a schematic P T-symmetric model

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2007.01.046MaRDI QIDQ712983zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Miloslav Znojil

Publication date 18 October 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701232

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal P\mathcal T\)-symmetric quantum models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: Many indefinite-metric (often called pseudo-Hermitian or PT-symmetric) quantum models H prove "physical" (i.e., Hermitian with respect to an innovated, ad hoc scalar product) inside a characteristic domain of parameters D. This means that the energies get complex (= unobservable) beyond the boundary (= Kato's "exceptional points", EPs). In a solvable example we detect an enlargement of D caused by the emergence of a new degree of freedom. We conjecture that such a beneficial mechanism of a return to the real spectrum near EPs may be generic and largely model-independent.

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