Schrödinger dynamics and physical folia of infinite mean-field quantum systems (Q752451)

The paper deals with the problem of non-equilibrium dynamics of infinite quantum lattice systems with a mean-field interaction. The main problem here is that due to the very long range of the interaction the Heisenberg dynamics can not be defined as a *-automorphism of the \(C^*\)-algebra \({\mathcal A}\) of quasilocal observables. In the Schrödinger picture this is equivalent to the statement that the set of physical states is smaller than the space of states S(\({\mathcal A}).\) The Heisenberg dynamics for mean-field models has been considered by Bona. He showed the existence of Heisenberg dynamics for certain representations and proved that the time evolution of macroscopic observables can be described by means of a ``classical phase space'' \(E\subseteq {\mathbb{R}}^ L\) and hamiltonian flow \(\phi^ Q_ t\) on it. In the paper under consideration the Schrödinger dynamics is considered. It is shown how it is related to the hamiltonian flow \(\phi^ Q_ t\). The structure of the set of all physical states is clarified. It is proved that the Heisenberg picture provides a more general approach because there are more representations in which Heisenberg dynamics can be defined than the ones which allow for the definition of a Schrödinger dynamics. Finally, the BCS model is considered as an example. In particular, it is shown that there are overcountably many different dynamical descriptions with the same macroscopic dynamical structure.