Noncommutative planar particle dynamics with gauge interactions (Q1395786): Difference between revisions

In [ibid. 260, 224-249 (1997; Zbl 0974.37041)], the authors considered the following extension of the free classical \(D= 2+1\) particle action \[ L= {m\dot x^2_i\over 2}- k\varepsilon_{ij}\dot x_i\ddot x_J,\quad k= -{\theta m^2\over 2}, \] and showed that it leads, after canonical quantization, to the introduction of noncommutative position variables \([\widehat x_i,\widehat x_j]= i\hbar\theta\varepsilon_{ij}\). \textit{H. Duval} and \textit{P. A. Horavathy} [Phys. Lett. B 479, 284-290 (2000; Zbl 1050.81568)] introduced the electromagnetic interaction with a magnetic potential to this model by adding to the Lagrangian, the term \(L^{\text{int}}= eA_i(X_i, t)X_i\). In this paper, the minimal EM coupling is introduced by the replacement \[ H_0= {\vec P^2\over 2m}\to {\vec P^2\over 2m}= {1\over 2m} (\vec P- e\vec A(X_i, t))^2, \] where \[ \begin{aligned} H &= {\vec P^2\over 2m}- {m\vec{\tilde P}^2\over 2k^2},\quad P_i= p_i,\quad\widetilde P_i= {k\over m} p_i+ \varepsilon_{ij}\widetilde p_j,\\ p_i &= m\dot x_i- 2k\varepsilon_{ij}\ddot x_j,\quad\widetilde p_i= k\varepsilon_{ij}\dot x_j.\end{aligned} \] After describing this model and the Duval-Horvathy model in Sect. 2, these two models are related to each other by a noncanonical transformation of the phase space variables \((X_i, P_i)\to (\eta,{\mathcal P}_i)\) supplemented by a classical Seiberg-Witten map between the corresponding gauge potentials in Sect. 3. For this purpose, the invariant particle coordinates \[ \eta_i(\vec X,t)= X_i+ e\theta\varepsilon_{ij}\widehat A_j(\vec X,t), \] are introduced, and the authors introduce a map \(\widehat A_\mu(\vec, t)\to A_\mu(\vec\eta, t)\). Then by using gauge field dreibein formalism described in the Appendix, it is shown that the authors' Lagrangian \(L\) and Duval-Horvathy's Lagrangean \(L_{\text{DH}}\) satisfy \[ L(\widehat A_\mu(\vec X,t), \dot{\vec X},\vec X,\vec P,\dot{\vec P})= L_{\text{DH}}(A_\mu(\vec\mu, t), \vec\eta, \dot{\vec\eta}, \vec{\mathcal P}, \dot{\vec{\mathcal P}}). \] The authors say this is the main result of the paper). In Sect. 4, the dynamics for two identical particles in this model interacting via Chern-Simons gauge interaction are studied. Contrary to the commutative and Duval-Horvathy model, field strength of the authors' model has a quadratic term owing to the noncommutativity reflecting the Chern-Simons action. In its quantization process, the ordering problem arising from the noncommuting position and momentum variables is solved by symmetrization. Then the authors say that quantization leads to the Schrödinger equation \[ \Biggl(-\hbar^2\Delta- {e^2\over\pi k\theta}- E\Biggr)\psi+ 2e\varepsilon_{ij}(y_i\chi(y))* \widehat P_j\psi+{2e\over \theta} (y^2\chi(y))* \psi= 0, \] where \(\widehat P_i= \hbar/i\partial_i\). CS gauge action is used to describe the fractional quantum Hall effect. This is discussed in Sect. 5.