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arxiv: quant-ph/0703235 · v1 · submitted 2007-03-25 · 🪐 quant-ph

Complex Spectrum of a Spontaneously Unbroken PT Symmetric Hamiltonian

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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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