Quantum unsharpness and symplectic rigidity

DOI10.1007/S11005-012-0564-7MaRDI QIDQ1927641zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Leonid Polterovich

Publication date 2 January 2013

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5247

zbMATH Keywords

Berezin-Toeplitz quantizationPoisson bracketpositive operator valued measurequantum measurementsymplectic manifoldsymplectic quasi-state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: We discuss a link between "hard" symplectic topology and an unsharpness principle for generalized quantum observables (positive operator valued measures). The link is provided by the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization.

Review text

The link between ``hard topology and an unsharpness principle for generalized quantum observables is established by means of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization. The starting point is a result from symplectic geometry showing that a partition of unity associated to a sufficiently fine finite open cover of a closed symplectic manifold cannot consist of Poisson-commuting functions. This statement is translated into the quantum language through the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization method. The observables are represented by positive operator valued measures and their unsharpness is measured in terms of noise operator. It is shown that these measures are images of the partitions of unity under Berezin-Toeplitz quantization and they are subject to a systematic intrinsic noise. The rigidity of partitions of unity is used for proving the non-displaceability of certain subsets which cannot be detected by the methods of classical differential geometry and topology. Some open problems on this subject are given: (i) establish in what conditions the positive operator-valued measures are necessarily non-commutative; (ii) explore in detail the relation between robustness and systematic noise; (iii) extend the results to the case of joint quantum measurements; (iv) study the meaning of the symplectic rigidity in quantum dynamics.

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