Time-Space Noncommutativity: Quantised Evolutions

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/068MaRDI QIDQ6467730zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors A. P. Balachandran, Thupil R. Govindarajan, António G. Martins, Paulo Teotonio-Sobrinho

Publication date 6 October 2004

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/068

Abstract: In previous work, we developed quantum physics on the Moyal plane with time-space noncommutativity, basing ourselves on the work of Doplicher et al.. Here we extend it to certain noncommutative versions of the cylinder, $mathbb{R}^3$ and $mathbbRimes{S}^3$. In all these models, only discrete time translations are possible, a result known before in the first two cases. One striking consequence of quantised time translations is that even though a time independent Hamiltonian is an observable, in scattering processes, it is conserved only modulo $frac2piheta$, where $heta$ is the noncommutative parameter. (In contrast, on a one-dimensional periodic lattice of lattice spacing $a$ and length $L=Na$, only momentum mod $frac2piL$ is observable (and can be conserved).) Suggestions for further study of this effect are made. Scattering theory is formulated and an approach to quantum field theory is outlined.

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