Magnetic translation groups as group extensions

DOI10.1016/0034-4877(94)90019-1MaRDI QIDQ1333419zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. Pereyra

Publication date 13 June 1995

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803188

zbMATH Keywords

central group extensionsfinite phase spacefinite translation groupgauge groupsmagnetic translation groupsWeyl-Heisenberg group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25)

Abstract: Extensions of a direct product T of two cyclic groups Z_n1 and Z_n2 by an Abelian (gauge) group G with the trivial action of T on G are considered. All possible (nonequivalent) factor systems are determined using the Mac Lane method. Some of resulting groups describe magnetic translation groups. As examples extensions with G=U(1) and G=Z_n are considered and discussed.

Review text

The author considers central group extensions \(0 \to G \to B \to T \to 1\) of an Abelian group \(G\) (playing the role of a gauge group) by a finite translation group \(T\) in two dimensions (so that \(T\) is the direct product of two cyclic groups \(\mathbb{Z}_{N_ 1}\) and \(\mathbb{Z}_{N_ 2}\)) with the trivial action of \(T\) on \(G\). This problem arises when considering quantum mechanical systems (with imposed Born-von Kármán periodic boundary conditions) involving the Weyl-Heisenberg group generated by the unitary operators of two canonically conjugated Hermitian operators, or a finite phase space (with one position space and one kinetic moment dimension), or the magnetic operator group for an electron moving in a plane perpendicular to an applied external magnetic field. Non-equivalent extensions, determined by applying a method originally developed by MacLane, are classified in terms of three parameters \(a\), \(b\), \(c\), elements of the Abelian group \(G\) and connected with full loops along the \(x\) and \(y\) axes and around a `plaquette', respectively. Two gauge groups \(G\) are taken as examples: \(G = \mathbb{Z}_ N\) and \(G = U(1)\). The latter case occurs for the magnetic translation groups: one then has \(a = b = 0\) and \(c \neq 0\), as \(c\) measures the magnetic flux through the plaquette. Within the same isomorphism class, one can take \(c = 1\), which corresponds to the choice of natural units.

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