Dirac gauge theory for topological spinors in 3+1 dimensional networks

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ACDC6AzbMATH Open1525.83012arXiv2212.05621MaRDI QIDQ6159712FDOQ6159712

Authors: Ginestra Bianconi 

Publication date: 20 June 2023

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

Abstract: Gauge theories on graphs and networks are attracting increasing attention not only as approaches to quantum gravity but also as models for performing quantum computation. Here we propose a Dirac gauge theory for topological spinors in $3+1$ dimensional networks associated to an arbitrary metric. Topological spinors are the direct sum of $0$-cochains and $1$-cochains defined on a network and describe a matter field defined on both nodes and links of a network. Recently in Ref. cite{bianconi2021topological} it has been shown that topological spinors obey the topological Dirac equation driven by the discrete Dirac operator. In this work we extend these results by formulating the Dirac equation on weighted and directed $3+1$ dimensional networks which allow for the treatment of a local theory. The commutators and anti-commutators of the Dirac operators are non vanishing an they define the curvature tensor and magnetic field of our theory respectively. This interpretation is confirmed by the non-relativistic limit of the proposed Dirac equation. In the non-relativistic limit of the proposed Dirac equation the sector of the spinor defined on links follows the Schr"odinger equation with the correct giromagnetic moment, while the sector of the spinor defined on nodes follows the Klein-Gordon equation and is not negligible. The action associated to the proposed field theory comprises of a Dirac action and a metric action. We describe the gauge invariance of the action under both Abelian and non-Abelian transformations and we propose the equation of motion of the field theory of both Dirac and metric fields. This theory can be interpreted as a limiting case of a more general gauge theory valid on any arbitrary network in the limit of almost flat spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05621

zbMATH Keywords

networksquantum gravityDirac equationlattice gauge theoriesdiscrete Dirac operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Programming involving graphs or networks (90C35) Quantum algorithms and complexity in the theory of computing (68Q12) Quantum computation (81P68) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Discrete version of topics in analysis (39A12) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Quasilinear elliptic equations with mean curvature operator (35J93)

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