Quantum F_un: the q = 1 limit of Galois field quantum mechanics, projective geometry and the field with one element

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/40/405304MaRDI QIDQ2926447zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lay Nam Chang, Zachary Lewis, Djordje Minic, Tatsu Takeuchi

Publication date 24 October 2014

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5544

zbMATH Keywords

classical mechanicsfield with one elementGalois fieldprojective geometryquantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Finite affine and projective planes (geometric aspects) (51E15) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

Abstract: We construct a `mutant' form of quantum mechanics on a vector space over the finite Galois field GF(q). We find that the correlations in our model do not violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) version of Bell's inequality, despite the fact that the predictions of this discretized quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced with any hidden variable theory. An alternative `mutation' is also suggested.

Review text

The authors contribute to the problem of recovering classical mechanics from quantum mechanics. They review several approaches to this hitherto unsolved problem, and start their own approach using Galois field quantum mechanics (GFQ), thereby continuing their work from the authors [``Galois field quantum mechanics, Mod. Phy. Lett. B 27, No. 10, Article ID 1350064, 10 p. (2013; \url{doi:10.1142/S0217984913500644}); J. Phys. A, Math. Theor. 46, No. 6, Article ID 065304, 19 p. (2013; Zbl 1263.81021)].NEWLINENEWLINE In GFQ, finite projective geometries \(\mathrm{PG}(N-1, q)\) of dimension \(N-1\) coordinatized by a Galois field \(\mathrm{GF}(q)\), \(q\) some prime power, serve as state spaces of the physical system. For \(N=4\) the authors construct a very simple two-``spin system in the vector space \(\mathrm{GF}(q)^N\), which has \(q^3+q^2+q+1\) states. For the ``limit \(q=1\) this gives 4 states, and the system is ``classical. Using the definition of \(F_1\) (``field with one element) given by N. Kurokawa and S. Koyama they define the projective geometry \(\mathrm{PG}(N-1,1)\), thus giving a sense to the \(q=1\) case.

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