Topologically inequivalent quantizations

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2021.168641MaRDI QIDQ2058656zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alfredo Iorio, L. Smaldone, G. Acquaviva

Publication date 9 December 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.09929

zbMATH Keywords

spontaneous symmetry breakingvortextopological defectinequivalent representationboson transformation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stefan problems, phase changes, etc. (80A22) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Vortex methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M23) Canonical quantization (81S08) Bosonic systems in quantum theory (81V73)

Abstract: We discuss the representations of the algebra of quantization, the canonical commutation relations, in a scalar quantum field theory with spontaneously broken U(1) internal symmetry, when a topological defect of the vortex type is formed via the condensation of Nambu-Goldstone particles. We find that the usual thermodynamic limit is not necessary in order to have the inequivalent representations needed for the existence of physically disjoint phases of the system. This is a new type of inequivalence, due to the nontrivial topological structure of the phase space, that appears at finite volume. We regard this as a first step towards a unifying view of topological and thermodynamic phases, and offer here comments on the possible application of this scenario to quantum gravity.

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