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View SchemaComplex Spectrum of a Spontaneously Unbroken PT Symmetric Hamiltonian
| Authors | C. Yuce |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0703235 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703235 |
Abstract
It is believed that unbroken PT symmetry is sufficient to guarantee that the spectrum of a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is real. We prove that this is not true. We study a Hamiltonian with complex spectrum for which PT symmetry is not spontaneously broken.
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