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    The Classical analog of CP violation

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    The phenomenological features of the mixing in the neutral pseudoscalar mesons K^0 -anti K^0 can be illustrated in the classical framework of mechanics and by means of electromagnetic coupled circuits. The time-reversed not-invariant processes and the related phenomenon of CP-nonconservation can be induced by dissipative effects which yield a non-vanishing imaginary part for the relevant Hamiltonian. Thus, two coupled dissipative oscillators can resemble the peculiar asymmetries which are so common in the realm of high energy particle physics

    The Optical analog of CP violation

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    The peculiar features of the mixing in the neutral pseudoscalar mesons K0 -[`(K0 )]K0−K0 can be introduced by the analogy to the optical polarization. The time-reversed not-invariant processes and the related phenomenon of CP-nonconservation can be then joined to the dissipative effects which yield a not vanishing imaginary part in the relevant propagation of electromagnetic radiation in a medium. Thus, the propagation of the two transverse polarization states can reproduce the peculiar asymmetries which are so common in the realm of high energy particle physics
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