Factorization properties of finite spaces

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/43/4/045301zbMATH Open1186.81058arXiv1002.1395OpenAlexW3104079879MaRDI QIDQ3407876FDOQ3407876

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Publication date: 24 February 2010

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

Abstract: In 1960 Schwinger [J. Schwinger, Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci. 46 (1960) 570- 579] proposed the algorithm for factorization of unitary operators in the finite M dimensional Hilbert space according to a coprime decomposition of M. Using a special permutation operator A we generalize the Schwinger factorization to every decomposition of M. We obtain the factorized pairs of unitary operators and show that they obey the same commutation relations as Schwinger's. We apply the new factorization to two problems. First, we show how to generate two kq-like mutually unbiased bases for any composite dimension. Then, using a Harper-like Hamiltonian model in the finite dimension M = M1M2, we show how to design a physical system with M1 energy levels, each having degeneracy M2.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1002.1395

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factorization theory (including Wiener-Hopf and spectral factorizations) of linear operators (47A68) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Eigenvalue problems for linear operators (47A75) (Generalized) eigenfunction expansions of linear operators; rigged Hilbert spaces (47A70)

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