Quantum Physics with Non-Hermitian Operators (PHHQP VII)

2008, June 29-July 11

Monday, June 30 09:30h Opening   Jose Ignacio LATORRE 10:00h In the complex plane Classical Mechanics and Quantum Mechanics are quite similar!   Carl BENDER 11:00h Pseudo-Hermitian Quantum Mechanics   Ali MOSTAFAZADEH 18:00h Cryptosymmetries of crypto-Hermitian systems   Andrei SMILGA Tuesday, July 01 10:00h Conceptual Issues in Coupling Hermitian and non-Hermitian Systems   Hugh JONES 11:00h Scattering in non-Hermitian models   Miloslav ZNOJIL 16:00h Mini-session on Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillators   Carl BENDER, Andrei SMILGA, Aldo DECTOR, Jose D. VERGARA... 18:00h PT Symmetry and QCD at finite temperature and density   Michael OGILVIE Wednesday, July 02 10:00h Obtaining non-Hermitian Hamiltonians by analytic continuation of Hermitian ones   Rafael DE LA MADRID 11:00h Generalized measurements and non-Hermitian quantum mechanics   Boris SAMSONOV Thursday, July 03 10:00h Non-Hermitian Hamilton operator and branch points in open quantum systems   Ingrid ROTTER 11:00h Spectral singularities, brachistochrone dilation and the relevance of the Hessenberg type   Uwe GUENTHER 16:00h Mini-session on quantum brachistochrone and mini-session on quantum tobbogan   Carl BENDER, Miloslav ZNOJIL, Uwe GUENTHER, Alexander NESTEROV, Ali MOSTAFAZADEH... 18:00h Unfolding of higher order exceptional points in a PT-symmetric Bose-Hubbard model   Eva-Maria GRAEFE 18:35h Geometric phases and quantum phenomena in vicinity of diabolic and exceptional points   Alexander NESTEROV Friday, July 04 10:00h Exactly solvable PT-symmetric and quasi-hermitian models   Geza LEVAI 11:00h Finite-gap systems and self-isospectral supersymmetry   Mikhail PLYUSHCHAY 15:30h Mini-session on non-linear SUSY in QM with real and complex potentials   Alexander ANDRIANOV, Mikhail PLYUSHCHAY, Luismi NIETO, Francisco CORREA, Andrei SOKOLOV, Vit JAKUBSKY... 18:00h Quasi-Hermitian descriptions for composite quantum systems   Giuseppe SCOLARICI Monday, July 07 10:00h Quantum Mechanics of Normal Matrices - Collective Field Approach   Joshua FEINBERG 11:00h Complex Hamiltonians in Supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories and topological strings. Why do they appear?   Alexander GORSKY 18:00h Random matrix theory for pseudo-Hermitian systems   Sudhir R. JAIN Tuesday, July 08 10:00h Hidden-crossings and inelastic transitions as result of non-Hermitian nature of Hamiltonian in complex time-plane   Evgeny SOLOVJEV 11:00h Spectral Analysis on the Real Line Equivalent of a PT-Symmetric System Defined on a Complex Contour   Gusein GUSEINOV 12:00h PT vs. Pseudo-hermiticity   Petr SIEGL 17:00h A scope for pseudo-Hermiticity in the (approximate treatment of) Hermitian Hamiltonians   Zafar AHMED Wednesday, July 09 10:00h Cosmology of Non-Hermitian Field Theory   Alexander ANDRIANOV 11:00h Generalized Quantization Conditions and Higher-Order Formulas   Ulrich JENTSCHURA Thursday, July 10 10:00h Intertwining symmetry algebras of quantum superintegrable systems   Mariano DEL OLMO 11:00h PT-symmetric waveguides   Milos TATER 12:00h Closing summary   Carl BENDER