Equivalence of a Complex $\cP\cT$-Symmetric Quartic Hamiltonian and a Hermitian Quartic Hamiltonian with an Anomaly

Details Equivalence of a Complex $\cP\cT$-Symmetric Quartic Hamiltonian and a Hermitian Quartic Hamiltonian with an Anomaly Equivalence of a Complex $\cP\cT$-Symmetric Quartic Hamiltonian and a Hermitian Quartic Hamiltonian with an Anomaly

2006-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0605066v2

Phys.Rev.D74:025016,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

19 pages, 7 figures, corrected references

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.025016

In a recent paper Jones and Mateo used operator techniques to show that the non-Hermitian $\cP\cT$-symmetric wrong-sign quartic Hamiltonian $H=\half p^2-gx^4$ has the same spectrum as the conventional Hermitian Hamiltonian $\tilde H=\half p^2+4g x^4-\sqrt{2g} x$. Here, this equivalence is demonstrated very simply by means of differential-equation techniques and, more importantly, by means of functional-integration techniques. It is shown that the linear term in the Hermitian Hamiltonian is anomalous; that is, this linear term has no classical analog. The anomaly arises because of the broken parity symmetry of the original non-Hermitian $\cP\cT$-symmetric Hamiltonian. This anomaly in the Hermitian form of a $\cP\cT$-symmetric quartic Hamiltonian is unchanged if a harmonic term is introduced into $H$. When there is a harmonic term, an immediate physical consequence of the anomaly is the appearance of bound states; if there were no anomaly term, there would be no bound states. Possible extensions of this work to $-\phi^4$ quantum field theory in higher-dimensional space-time are discussed.

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