Boundaries without boundaries

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2018.04.030MaRDI QIDQ1647983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo Facchi, Giancarlo Garnero, Giuseppe Marmo, Joseph Samuel, Supurna Sinha

Publication date 27 June 2018

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.03029

zbMATH Keywords

quantum boundary conditionsquantum dynamics on a manifoldreduction theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

Abstract: Starting with a quantum particle on a closed manifold without boundary, we consider the process of generating boundaries by modding out by a group action with fixed points, and we study the emergent quantum dynamics on the quotient manifold. As an illustrative example, we consider a free nonrelativistic quantum particle on the circle and generate the interval via parity reduction. A free particle with Neumann and Dirichlet boundary conditions on the interval is obtained, and, by changing the metric near the boundary, Robin boundary conditions can also be accommodated. We also indicate a possible method of generating non-local boundary conditions. Then, we explore an alternative generation mechanism which makes use of a folding procedure and is applicable to a generic Hamiltonian through the emergence of an ancillary spin degree of freedom.

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