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Naimark-dilated PT-symmetric brachistochrone

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Dec 5;101(23):230404. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.230404. Epub 2008 Dec 5.

Abstract

The quantum mechanical brachistochrone system with a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian is Naimark-dilated and reinterpreted as a subsystem of a Hermitian system in a higher-dimensional Hilbert space. This opens a way to a direct experimental implementation of the recently hypothesized PT-symmetric ultrafast brachistochrone regime of Bender et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 040403 (2007)] in an entangled two-spin system.