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The first paper that has "non-Hermitian quantum mechanics" in the title was published in 1996 [1] by Naomichi Hatano and David R. Nelson. The authors mapped a classical statistical model of flux-line pinning by columnar defects in high-T c superconductors to a quantum model by means of an inverse path-integral mapping and ended up with a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian with an imaginary vector ...
Carl M Bender and Stefan Boettcher, "Real Spectra in non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Having PT Symmetry," Physical Review Letters 80, 5243 (1998). Carl M Bender, "Making Sense of Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians," Reports on Progress in Physics 70, 947 (2007).
This lists the character tables for the more common molecular point groups used in the study of molecular symmetry. These tables are based on the group-theoretical treatment of the symmetry operations present in common molecules, and are useful in molecular spectroscopy and quantum chemistry. Information regarding the use of the tables, as well ...
C i (equivalent to S 2) – inversion symmetry; C 2 – 2-fold rotational symmetry; C s (equivalent to C 1h and C 1v) – reflection symmetry, also called bilateral symmetry. Patterns on a cylindrical band illustrating the case n = 6 for each of the 7 infinite families of point groups. The symmetry group of each pattern is the indicated group.
CPT is the only combination of C, P, and T that is observed to be an exact symmetry of nature at the fundamental level. [1] [2] The CPT theorem says that CPT symmetry holds for all physical phenomena, or more precisely, that any Lorentz invariant local quantum field theory with a Hermitian Hamiltonian must have CPT symmetry.
CP-symmetry is the product of two transformations: C for charge conjugation and P for parity. In other words, a process in which all particles are exchanged with their antiparticles was assumed to be equivalent to the mirror image of the original process and so the combined CP-symmetry would be conserved in the weak interaction.
In physics, this property is referred to as PT symmetry. This definition extends also to functions of two or more variables, e.g., in the case that f {\displaystyle f} is a function of two variables it is Hermitian if
A point reflection is an involution: applying it twice is the identity transformation. An object that is invariant under a point reflection is said to possess point symmetry (also called inversion symmetry or central symmetry). A point group including a point reflection among its symmetries is called centrosymmetric.