Fuzzy circle and new fuzzy sphere through confining potentials and energy cutoffs

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2018.07.001zbMATH Open1396.81119arXiv1709.04807OpenAlexW2754251877WikidataQ129484846 ScholiaQ129484846MaRDI QIDQ1664034FDOQ1664034

Authors: Gaetano Fiore, Francesco Pisacane 

Publication date: 24 August 2018

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Guided by ordinary quantum mechanics we introduce new fuzzy spheres of dimensions d=1,2: we consider an ordinary quantum particle in D=d+1 dimensions subject to a rotation invariant potential well V(r) with a very sharp minimum on a sphere of unit radius. Imposing a sufficiently low energy cutoff to `freeze' the radial excitations makes only a finite-dimensional Hilbert subspace accessible and on it the coordinates noncommutative `a la Snyder; in fact, on it they generate the whole algebra of observables. The construction is equivariant not only under rotations - as Madore's fuzzy sphere -, but under the full orthogonal group O(D). Making the cutoff and the depth of the well dependent on (and diverging with) a natural number L, and keeping the leading terms in 1/L, we obtain a sequence S^d_L of fuzzy spheres converging (in a suitable sense) to the sphere S^d as L diverges (whereby we recover ordinary quantum mechanics on S^d). These models may be useful in condensed matter problems where particles are confined on a sphere by an (at least approximately) rotation-invariant potential, beside being suggestive of analogous mechanisms in quantum field theory or quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.04807

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zbMATH Keywords

noncommutative geometryspacetime symmetriesultraviolet regularizationfuzzy spacesunitary representations of compact groupsquantum constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Noncommutative geometry methods in quantum field theory (81T75)

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