Quantum groups and polymer quantum mechanics

DOI10.1142/S0217732321502291MaRDI QIDQ5067337zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, L. Smaldone

Publication date 1 April 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.14792

zbMATH Keywords

quantum groups\(q\)-oscillatorpolymer quantum mechanics\(q\)-Fock spacepolymer representation\(q\)-Weyl-Heisenbergtopologically inequivalent quantizations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Singular and oscillatory integrals (Calderón-Zygmund, etc.) (42B20) Bergman spaces and Fock spaces (30H20) Nonselfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory including creation and destruction operators (81Q12) Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) PDEs on Heisenberg groups, Lie groups, Carnot groups, etc. (35R03) Stochastic quantization (81S20)

Abstract: In Polymer Quantum Mechanics, a quantization scheme that naturally emerges from Loop Quantum Gravity, position and momentum operators cannot be both well-defined on the Hilbert space ( H_Poly ). It is henceforth deemed impossible to define standard creation and annihilation operators. In this letter we show that a q-oscillator structure, and hence q-deformed creation/annihilation operators, can be naturally defined on H_Poly , which is then mapped into the sum of many copies of the q-oscillator Hilbert space. This shows that the q-calculus is a natural calculus for Polymer Quantum Mechanics. Moreover, we show that the inequivalence of different superselected sectors of H Poly is of topological nature.

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