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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 270, 2022
QCD@Work 2022 - International Workshop on Quantum Chromodynamics - Theory and Experiment
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| Article Number | 00031 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227000031 | |
| Published online | 17 November 2022 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227000031
From PT quantum mechanics to PT holography
Instituto de Física Teórica UAM-CSIC, C/ Nicolás Cabrera 13-15, 28049 Campus Cantoblanco, Spain
* e-mail: karl.landsteiner@csic.es
Published online: 17 November 2022
PT quantum mechanics studies the physics of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians having an anti-linear involution denoted by PT as a symmetry. We extend the concept of PT non-Hermitian quantum theory to gauge-gravity duality. Non-Hermiticity is introduced via boundary conditions in asymptotically AdS spacetimes. We identify how key properites such as the PT phase transition are implemented in the gauge-gravity duality. Then we move on to study time dependent systems (holographic quantum quenches) and discuss how Hermitian and non-Hermitian time evolution arise in PT quantum mechanics and how it is implemented in the gauge-gravity duality. A key feature is that the non-Hermitian time evolution violates the null energy condition (NEC) and speculate about possible applications.
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