On quantum mechanics with a magnetic field on R^n and on a torus T^n, and their relation

DOI10.1007/S10773-012-1396-ZzbMATH Open1269.81040arXiv1103.0034OpenAlexW3098065385MaRDI QIDQ352676FDOQ352676

Authors: Gaetano Fiore 

Publication date: 5 July 2013

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show in elementary terms the equivalence in a general gauge of a U(1)-gauge theory of a scalar charged particle on a torus T^n = R^n/L to the analogous theory on R^n constrained by quasiperiodicity under translations in the lattice L. The latter theory provides a global description of the former: the quasiperiodic wavefunctions defined on R^n play the role of sections of the associated hermitean line bundle E on T^n, since also E admits a global description as a quotient. The components of the covariant derivatives corresponding to a constant (necessarily integral) magnetic field B = dA generate a Lie algebra g_Q and together with the periodic functions the algebra of observables O_Q . The non-abelian part of g_Q is a Heisenberg Lie algebra with the electric charge operator Q as the central generator; the corresponding Lie group G_Q acts on the Hilbert space as the translation group up to phase factors. Also the space of sections of E is mapped into itself by g in G_Q . We identify the socalled magnetic translation group as a subgroup of the observables' group Y_Q . We determine the unitary irreducible representations of O_Q, Y_Q corresponding to integer charges and for each of them an associated orthonormal basis explicitly in configuration space. We also clarify how in the n = 2m case a holomorphic structure and Theta functions arise on the associated complex torus. These results apply equally well to the physics of charged scalar particles on R^n and on T^n in the presence of periodic magnetic field B and scalar potential. They are also necessary preliminary steps for the application to these theories of the deformation procedure induced by Drinfel'd twists.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0034

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zbMATH Keywords

fiber bundlesgauge symmetryBloch theory with magnetic fieldquantization on manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Applications of vector bundles and moduli spaces in mathematical physics (twistor theory, instantons, quantum field theory) (14D21) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35)

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