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The physical condition that the expectation values of physical observables are real quantities is used to give a precise formulation of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. A mathematically rigorous proof is given to establish the physical equivalence of PT-symmetric and conventional quantum mechanics. The results reported in this paper apply to arbitrary PT-symmetric Hamiltonians with a real and discrete spectrum. They hold regardless of whether the boundary conditions defining the spectrum of the Hamiltonian are given on the real line or a complex contour.
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Mostafazadeh, A. PT-symmetric Quantum Mechanics: A Precise and Consistent Formulation. Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 54, 1125–1132 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CJOP.0000044014.54626.c8
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