The classical limit of mean-field quantum spin systems

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Abstract: The theory of strict deformation quantization of the two sphere S2subsetmathbbR3 is used to prove the existence of the classical limit of mean-field quantum spin chains, whose ensuing Hamiltonians are denoted by HN and where N indicates the number of sites. Indeed, since the fibers A1/N=MN+1(mathbbC) and A0=C(S2) form a continuous bundle of C-algebras over the base space I=0cup1/mathbbNsubset[0,1], one can define a strict deformation quantization of A0 where quantization is specified by certain quantization maps Q1/N:ildeA0ightarrowA1/N, with ildeA0 a dense Poisson subalgebra of A0. Given now a sequence of such HN, we show that under some assumptions a sequence of eigenvectors psiN of HN has a classical limit in the sense that omega0(f):=limNoinftylanglepsiN,Q1/N(f)psiNangle exists as a state on A0 given by omega0(f)=frac1nsumi=1nf(Omegai), where n is some natural number. We give an application regarding spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) and moreover we show that the spectrum of such a mean-field quantum spin system converges to the range of some polynomial in three real variables restricted to the sphere S2.



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