Nambu quantum mechanics on discrete 3-tori

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/27/275201zbMATH Open1168.81339arXiv0901.2638OpenAlexW2085577881MaRDI QIDQ5192063FDOQ5192063

Authors: Minos Axenides, Emmanuel G. Floratos, Stam Nicolis 

Publication date: 4 August 2009

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

Abstract: We propose a quantization of linear, volume preserving, maps on the discrete and finite 3-torus T_N^3 represented by elements of the group SL(3,Z_N). These flows can be considered as special motions of the Nambu dynamics (linear Nambu flows) in the three dimensional toroidal phase space and are characterized by invariant vectors, a, of T_N^3. We quantize all such flows which are necessarily restricted on a planar two-dimensional phase space, embedded in the 3-torus, transverse to the vector a . The corresponding maps belong to the little group of the vector a in SL(3,Z_N) which is an SL(2,Z_N) subgroup. The associated linear Nambu maps are generated by a pair of linear and quadratic Hamiltonians (Clebsch-Monge potentials of the flow) and the corresponding quantum maps, realize the metaplectic representation of SL(3,Z_N) on the discrete group of three dimensional magnetic translations i.e. the non-commutative 3-torus with deformation parameter the N-th root of unity. Other potential applications of our construction are related to the quantization of deterministic chaos in turbulent maps as well as to quantum tomography of three dimensional objects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.2638

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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