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This paper proposes to broaden the canonical formulation of quantum mechanics. Ordinarily, one imposes the condition $H^\dagger=H$ on the Hamiltonian, where $\dagger$ represents the mathematical operation of complex conjugation and matrix transposition. This conventional Hermiticity condition is sufficient to ensure that the Hamiltonian $H$ has a real spectrum. However, replacing this mathematical condition by the weaker and more physical requirement $H^\ddag=H$, where $\ddag$ represents combined parity reflection and time reversal ${\cal PT}$, one obtains new classes of complex Hamiltonians whose spectra are still real and positive. This generalization of Hermiticity is investigated using a complex deformation $H=p^2+x^2(ix)^\epsilon$ of the harmonic oscillator Hamiltonian, where $\epsilon$ is a real parameter. The system exhibits two phases: When $\epsilon\geq0$, the energy spectrum of $H$ is real and positive as a consequence of ${\cal PT}$ symmetry. However, when $-1<\epsilon<0$, the spectrum contains an infinite number of complex eigenvalues and a finite number of real, positive eigenvalues because ${\cal PT}$ symmetry is spontaneously broken. The phase transition that occurs at $\epsilon=0$ manifests itself in both the quantum-mechanical system and the underlying classical system. Similar qualitative features are exhibited by complex deformations of other standard real Hamiltonians $H=p^2+x^{2N}(ix)^\epsilon$ with $N$ integer and $\epsilon>-N$; each of these complex Hamiltonians exhibits a phase transition at $\epsilon=0$. These ${\cal PT}$-symmetric theories may be viewed as analytic continuations of conventional theories from real to complex phase space.
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