On the pseudo-manifold of quantum states

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2021.101800zbMATH Open1483.46074arXiv2011.04488OpenAlexW3184823451WikidataQ115354503 ScholiaQ115354503MaRDI QIDQ1979415FDOQ1979415

Authors: Francesco D'Andrea, Davide Franco 

Publication date: 2 September 2021

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There are various statements in the physics literature about the stratification of quantum states, for example into orbits of a unitary group, and about generalized differentiable structures on it. Our aim is to clarify and make precise some of these statements. For A an arbitrary finite-dimensional C*-algebra and U(A) the group of unitary elements of A, we observe that the partition of the state space S(A) into U(A) orbits is not a decomposition and that the decomposition into orbit types is not a stratification (its pieces are not manifolds without boundary), while there is a natural Whitney stratification into matrices of fixed rank. For the latter, when A is a full matrix algebra, we give an explicit description of the pseudo-manifold structure (the conical neighborhood around any point). We then make some comments about the infinite-dimensional case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04488

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum statesgeometry of quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative differential geometry (46L87) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Stratifications in topological manifolds (57N80)

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