On urn models, non-commutativity and operator normal forms

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2010.10.003MaRDI QIDQ418639zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pawel Blasiak

Publication date 29 May 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.2445

zbMATH Keywords

enumeration of historiesgenerating functionsHeisenberg-Weyl algebranormal orderingurn models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: Non-commutativity is ubiquitous in mathematical modeling of reality and in many cases same algebraic structures are implemented in different situations. Here we consider the canonical commutation relation of quantum theory and discuss a simple urn model of the latter. It is shown that enumeration of urn histories provides a faithful realization of the Heisenberg-Weyl algebra. Drawing on this analogy we demonstrate how the operator normal forms facilitate counting of histories via generating functions, which in turn yields an intuitive combinatorial picture of the ordering procedure itself.

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