A Critique of PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics

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dc.creatorMostafazadeh, Ali
dc.date2003-10-28
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:08:10Z
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dc.descriptionWe 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.
dc.description11 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310164
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0310164
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/91538
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleA Critique of PT-Symmetric Quantum Mechanics
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