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View SchemaA Critique of PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
| Authors | Ali Mostafazadeh |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0310164 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310164 |
Abstract
We study the physical content of the PT-symmetric complex extension of quantum mechanics as proposed in Bender et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5243 (1998) and 89, 270401 (2002), and show that as a fundamental probabilistic physical theory it is neither an alternative to nor an extension of ordinary quantum mechanics. We demonstrate that the definition of a physical observable given in the above papers is inconsistent with the dynamical aspect of the theory and offer a consistent notion of an observable.
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