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Are Hamiltonians CPT invariant?
I'm confused by the CPT theorem. It states (more or less) that a Lorentz invariant quantum field theory needs to be CPT invariant. But what does it actually mean for a QFT to be CPT invariant? It ...
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Charge, Parity, and Time are considered when talking about symmetries in physics. What about Rotational symmetry?
I've seen Charge, Parity, and Time symmetries talked about, but how come never rotational symmetry? E.g. if the entire universe was rotated 90 degrees, would any physical phenomenon behave differently?...
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How does CPT symmetry hold while Charge, Parity and Time can all be violated?
To get it straight, Charge symmetry can be broken by U-236 atoms, Parity can be broken by K-one atoms and Time symmetry can be broken by quarks. So, how do they together hold true?
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Examples of the vacuum $| 0 \rangle$ break C, P, T symmetry?
Can the vacuum $| 0 \rangle$ of some QFT break C, P, T symmetry?
It could be that the QFT break C, P, T symmetry explicitly. Are there good examples?
p.s. The weak interaction breaks P explicitly ...
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chiral symmetry condensate and 2SC, CFL breaking C, P and T symmetry?
Because we know that chiral symmetry condensate causes the chiral symmetry breaking, and it produces Goldstone modes of pseudo-scalars, so I believe that chiral symmetry breaking also breaks the T ...
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Why Levi-Civita term signal the breaking of parity and time reversal?
For example, referring to Zee's QFT book, in Chern-Simons matter theory, after writing a term
$$\gamma {\varepsilon ^{\mu \nu \lambda }}{a_\mu }{\partial _\nu}{a_\lambda }$$
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The ...
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