Spectral triplets, statistical mechanics and emergent geometry in non-commutative quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/8/085204zbMATH Open1264.81260arXiv1206.5119OpenAlexW2146915275MaRDI QIDQ4915696FDOQ4915696

Authors: Frederik G. Scholtz, Biswajit Chakraborty 

Publication date: 11 April 2013

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

Abstract: We show that when non-commutative quantum mechanics is formulated on the Hilbert space of Hilbert-Schmidt operators (referred to as quantum Hilbert space) acting on a classical configuration space, spectral triplets as introduced by Connes in the context of non-commutative geometry arise naturally. A distance function as defined by Connes can therefore also be introduced. We proceed to give a simple and general algorithm to compute this function. Using this we compute the distance between pure and mixed states on quantum Hilbert space and demonstrate a tantalizing link between statistics and geometry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5119

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative geometry (à la Connes) (58B34) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Inner product spaces and their generalizations, Hilbert spaces (46C99)

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