Infinite matrices may violate the associative law

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/28/6/027zbMATH Open0854.46058arXivquant-ph/9412007OpenAlexW2052765313MaRDI QIDQ4889567FDOQ4889567

Authors: Ofir E. Alon, N. Moiseyev, Asher Peres 

Publication date: 14 August 1996

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

Abstract: The momentum operator for a particle in a box is represented by an infinite order Hermitian matrix $P$. Its square $P^2$ is well defined (and diagonal), but its cube $P^3$ is ill defined, because $P{P}^{2}eq{P}^{2}P$. Truncating these matrices to a finite order restores the associative law, but leads to other curious results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9412007

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zbMATH Keywords

momentum operatorassociative lawparticle in a boxinfinite order Hermitian matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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