Experiments in PT-symmetric quantum mechanics

Abstract

Extended quantum mechanics using non-Hermitian, pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians is briefly reviewed. Supersymmetric regularizations, solvable simulations and large-N expansion techniques are recollected as suitable means for the study of non-local quasi-particles. Their many-particle or even, perhaps, unstable and decaying generalizations are also considered. Picking up the Klein-Gordon equation and its Feshbach-Villars' Hamiltonian for definiteness, we argue that the PT symmetry might help to clarify experimental aspects of relativistic quantum mechanics.

talk presented during the 1st Int. Workshop ``Pseudo-Hermitian Hamiltonians in Quantum Physics" (Prague, June 16-17, 2003)(revised: 7 pages)