THE STRUCTURE OF SPIN SYSTEMS

DOI10.1142/S0129167X03001673zbMATH Open1053.46040arXivmath/0103201MaRDI QIDQ4474411FDOQ4474411

Authors: William Arveson, Geoffrey L. Price 

Publication date: 12 July 2004

Published in: International Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A spin system is a sequence of self-adjoint unitary operators $U_1,U_2,\mathrm{...}$ acting on a Hilbert space $H$ which either commute or anticommute, $U_i{U}_j=pm{U}_j{U}_i$ for all $i,j$; it is is called irreducible when $U_1,U_2,\mathrm{...}$ is an irreducible set of operators. There is a unique infinite matrix $(c_{ij})$ with $0,1$ entries satisfying ${\displaystyle }$ U_iU_j=(-1)^{c_{ij}}U_jU_i, qquad i,j=1,2,.... ${\displaystyle }$ Every matrix $(c_{ij})$ with $0,1$ entries satisfying $c_{ij}=c_{ji}$ and $c_{ii}=0$ arises from a nontrivial irreducible spin system, and there are uncountably many such matrices. Infinite dimensional irreducible representations exist when the commutation matrix $(c_{ij})$ is of "infinite rank". In such cases we show that the $C^{\ast }$-algebra generated by an irreducible spin system is the CAR algebra, an infinite tensor product of copies of $M_2(BbbC)$, and we classify the irreducible spin systems associated with a given matrix $(c_{ij})$ up to approximate unitary equivalence. That follows from a structural result. The $C^{\ast }$-algebra generated by the universal spin system $u_1,u_2,\mathrm{...}$ of $(c_{ij})$ decomposes into a tensor product $C(X)otimesCalA$, where $X$ is a Cantor set (possibly finite) and $CalA$ is either the CAR algebra or a finite tensor product of copies of $M_2(BbbC)$. The Bratteli diagram technology of AF algebras is not well suited to spin systems. Instead, we work out elementary properties of the $Bbb{Z}_2$-valued "symplectic" form ${\displaystyle }$ omega(x,y) =sum_{p,q=1}^infty c_{pq}x_qy_p, ${\displaystyle }$ $x,y$ ranging over the free infninite dimensional vector space over the Galois field $Bbb{Z}_2$, and show that one can read off the structure of $C(X)otimesCalA$ from properties of $omega$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0103201

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zbMATH Keywords

irreduciblespin systemCAR algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Classifications of (C^*)-algebras (46L35) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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