scholarly journals Anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry for a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustapha Maamache ◽  
Linda Kheniche

Abstract Anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry, $(\mathcal{PT})H=-H(\mathcal{PT})$, is a plausible variant of $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry. Of particular interest is the situation when all the eigenstates of an anti-$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric non-Hermitian Hamiltonian $H$ are also eigenstates of the $\mathcal{PT}$ operator; then, the quasi-energies are purely imaginary, which implies that the Hermitian conjugate $H^{+}=-H$, and thus they are connected via the relation $(\mathcal{PT})H=H^{+}\mathcal{PT}$, similar to the quasi-Hermiticity relation. Therefore, the eigenfunctions of the anti-$\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric $H$ form a complete orthonormal set with positive definite norms, and moreover the time evolution is unitary.

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (01) ◽  
pp. 2050001
Author(s):  
Mateusz Snamina ◽  
Emil J. Zak

In the present paper we show a link between bistochastic quantum channels and classical maps. The primary goal of this work is to analyse the multiplicative structure of the Birkhoff polytope of order 3 (the simplest nontrivial case). A suitable complex parametrization of the Birkhoff polytope is proposed, which reveals several its symmetries and characteristics, in particular: (i) the structure of Markov semigroups inside the Birkhoff polytope, (ii) the relation between the set of Markov time evolutions, the set of positive definite matrices and the set of divisible matrices. A condition for Markov time evolution of semigroups in the set of symmetric bistochastic matrices is derived, which leads to an universal conserved quantity for all Markov evolutions. Finally, the complex parametrization is extended to the Birkhoff polytope of order 4.


2014 ◽  
Vol 184 (11) ◽  
pp. 1177-1198 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Zyablovsky ◽  
Aleksei P. Vinogradov ◽  
Aleksandr A. Pukhov ◽  
A.V. Dorofeenko ◽  
A.A. Lisyansky
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2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hernández-Uribe ◽  
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Chris G. Mattinson ◽  
Owen K. Neill ◽  
Andrew Kylander-Clark ◽  
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Author(s):  
Klaus Morawetz

The historical development of kinetic theory is reviewed with respect to the inclusion of virial corrections. Here the theory of dense gases differs from quantum liquids. While the first one leads to Enskog-type of corrections to the kinetic theory, the latter ones are described by quasiparticle concepts of Landau-type theories. A unifying kinetic theory is envisaged by the nonlocal quantum kinetic theory. Nonequilibrium phenomena are the essential processes which occur in nature. Any evolution is built up of involved causal networks which may render a new state of quality in the course of time evolution. The steady state or equilibrium is rather the exception in nature, if not a theoretical abstraction at all.


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