 Neutral-kaon mass matrix diagonalization

With CPT symmetry, a Hermitian kaon mass matrix is $M=\left(\begin{array}{cc}{r}_0& z\\ z^{\ast }& r_0\end{array}\right)$. Its eigenvalues are $r_0\pm |z|$. For correlated roots $a^2=z$, $b^2=z^{\ast }$ and $ab=|z|$, the normalized lower and upper eigenvectors are $(a,-b)/\sqrt{2|z|}$ and $(a,b)/\sqrt{2|z|}$. They are orthogonal. This is a mass-only result; including decay requires the generally non-Hermitian effective matrix $M-i\Gamma /2$.