Spectra of observables in the q-oscillator and q-analogue of the Fourier transform

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2005.008MaRDI QIDQ2495119zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. U. Klimyk

Publication date 4 July 2006

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0508032, https://eudml.org/doc/52767, http://www.emis.de/journals/SIGMA/2005/Paper008/index.html

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zbMATH Keywords

\(q\)-oscillatorFourier transformmomentum operatorposition operatorspectra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Orthogonal polynomials and functions of hypergeometric type (Jacobi, Laguerre, Hermite, Askey scheme, etc.) (33C45) Hermitian and normal operators (spectral measures, functional calculus, etc.) (47B15) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

Abstract: Spectra of the position and momentum operators of the Biedenharn-Macfarlane q-oscillator (with the main relation aa^+-qa^+a=1) are studied when q>1. These operators are symmetric but not self-adjoint. They have a one-parameter family of self-adjoint extensions. These extensions are derived explicitly. Their spectra and eigenfunctions are given. Spectra of different extensions do not intersect. The results show that the creation and annihilation operators a^+ and a of the q-oscillator for q>1 cannot determine a physical system without further more precise definition. In order to determine a physical system we have to choose appropriate self-adjoint extensions of the position and momentum operators.

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The author studies self-adjoint extensions of the position and momentum operators \(Q\) and \(P\) for the \(q\)-oscillator with the main relation \(aa^{+}-qa^{+}a=1\), when \(q>1\). For these values of \(q\) the operators \(Q\) and \(P\) are unbounded and not essentially self-adjoint. In an appropriate basis these operators can be represented by a Jacobi matrix and hence they can be studied using \(q\)-orthogonal polynomials associated to them. Rewriting the latter ones using the \(q^{-1}\)-continuous Hermite polynomials and using orthogonality measures for them the author determines the spectra of self-adjoint extensions of \(Q\) and \(P\). As a consequence one gets that the creation and annihilation operators \(a^{+}\) and \(a\) of the \(q\)-oscillator do not determine uniquely the physical system in the case \(q>1\). In order to determine this system uniquely one has to choose appropriate self-adjoint extensions of \(Q\) and \(P\).

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