Geometric quantization of the 1:1 oscillator

DOI10.1007/S12346-020-00417-XMaRDI QIDQ2006997zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Cushman, J. Śniatycki

Publication date 12 October 2020

Published in Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s12346-020-00417-x

zbMATH Keywords

2d-harmonic oscillator\(\mathrm{SU}(2)\) representationBohr-Sommerfeld-Heisenberg quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coadjoint orbits; nilpotent varieties (17B08) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Canonical quantization (81S08) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Review text

Consider the cotangent bundle of \(\mathbb{R}^2\) with the standard symplectic form and define two smooth functions on \(M\): the Hamiltonian of two dimensional harmonic oscillator and the angular momentum. These functions induce Hamiltonian vector fields on \(M\) which define a generalized distribution. The corresponding torus action is studied: orbit types decomposition and action angle variables are defined. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization is carried out explicitly by associating operators to action functions. The Hilbert space of quantization \(\mathfrak{H}\) is spanned by vectors \(\mathbf{e}_{m,n}\) associated to each Bohr-Sommerfeld torus. Using ladder operators it is shown that there is a reducible representation of a finite dimensional Lie algebra on \(\mathfrak{H}\). Then, reductions of \(S^1\) oscillator symmetry give rise to new symplectic manifolds \({S}^2_e\), which are symplectomorphic to coadjoint orbits of \(SU(2)\). The corresponding quantum spaces decompose in two finite dimensional irreducible representations of \(su(2)\). Finally, it is shown that \({S}^2_e\) has a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\)-symmetry whose reduction is a one degree of freedom system, which can be reduced to a space whose quantization is a single finite dimensional irreducible representation of \(su(2)\).

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