Representations of general commutation relations: The asymptotic behavior of the spectrum of the three quantum Hamiltonians (Q5928036): Difference between revisions

Motivated by the example of Raman scattering in quantum mechanics, the authors study generalizations of the canonical (anti-)commutation relations (CCR, CAR). These are characterized by the relations \[ [S,A^+]=A^+,\;[S,A]=-A,\;AA^+=f(A^+A,S), \] with an arbitrary function \(f\) of two real variables. They find representations of these relations on \(\ell^2\)-spaces which are characterized by sequences \(\{x_n\}\) of nonnegative numbers which are recursively defined by \[ x_{n+1}=f(x_n,\nu+n), \] with \(\nu\) a real parameter and \(x_0\geq 0\). They state one of their earlier results, that a generalized scattering Hamiltonian, in which the excitonic degrees of freedom obey the generalized CCR or CAR, is generically not semibounded from below. This absence of the vacuum is to be interpreted as energetic instability of the system. They give conditions under which general \(n\)-channel scattering Hamiltonians are semibounded from below. They finally apply their analysis to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.