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A recently introduced numerical approach to quantum systems is analyzed. The basis of a Fock space is restricted and represented in an algebraic program. Convergence with increasing size of basis is proved and the difference between discrete and continuous spectrum is stressed. In particular a new scaling low for nonlocalized states is obtained. Exact solutions for several cases as well as general properties of the method are given.
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M. Trzetrzelewski
, J. Wosiek (M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics
, n Jagellonian University
2003
Standard quantum mechanics is viewed as a limit of a cut system with artificially restricted dimension of a Hilbert space. Exact spectrum of cut momentum and coordinate operators is derived and the limiting transition to the infinite dimensional Hilbert space is studied in detail. The difference between systems with discrete and continuous energy spectra is emphasized. In particular a new scaling law, characteristic for nonlocalized, states is found. Some applications for supersymmetric quantum mechanics are briefly outlined.
Prompted by recent results on Susy-U(N)-invariant quantum mechanics in the large N limit by Veneziano and Wosiek, we have examined the planar spectrum in the full Hilbert space of U(N)-invariant states built on the Fock vacuum by applying any U(N)-invariant combinations of creation-operators. We present results about 1) the supersymmetric model in the bosonic sector, 2) the standard quartic Hamiltonian. This latter is useful to check our techniques against the exact result of Brezin et al. The SuSy case is where Fock space methods prove to be the most efficient: it turns out that the problem is separable and the exact planar spectrum can be expressed in terms of the single-trace spectrum. In the case of the anharmonic oscillator, on the other hand, the Fock space analysis is quite cumbersome due to the presence of large off-diagonal O(N) terms coupling subspaces with different number of traces; these terms should be absorbed before taking the planar limit and recovering the known planar spectrum. We give analytical and numerical evidence that good qualitative information on the spectrum can be obtained this way.
Following earlier work, we view two dimensional non-linear sigma model with target space $cM$ as a single particle relativistic quantum mechanics in the corresponding free loop space $cLM$. In a natural semi-classical limit ($hbar=alpha to 0$) of this model the wavefunction localizes on the submanifold of vanishing loops which is isomorphic to $cM$. One would expect that the relevant semi-classical expansion should be related to the tubular expansion of the theory around the submanifold and an effective dynamics on the submanifold is obtainable using Born-Oppenheimer approximation. In this work we develop a framework to carry out such an analysis at the leading order in $alpha$-expansion. In particular, we show that the linearized tachyon effective equation is correctly reproduced up to divergent terms all proportional to the Ricci scalar of $cM$. The steps leading to this result are as follows: first we define a finite dimensional analogue of the loop space quantum mechanics (LSQM) where we discuss its tubular expansion and how that is related to a semi-classical expansion of the Hamiltonian. Then we study an explicit construction of the relevant tubular neighborhood in $cLM$ using exponential maps. Such a tubular geometry is obtained from a Riemannian structure on the tangent bundle of $cM$ which views the zero-section as a submanifold admitting a tubular neighborhood. Using this result and exploiting an analogy with the toy model we arrive at the final result for LSQM.
Motivated by the computation of loop space quantum mechanics as indicated in [7], here we seek a better understanding of the tubular geometry of loop space ${cal L}{cal M}$ corresponding to a Riemannian manifold ${cal M}$ around the submanifold of vanishing loops. Our approach is to first compute the tubular metric of $({cal M}^{2N+1})_{C}$ around the diagonal submanifold, where $({cal M}^N)_{C}$ is the Cartesian product of $N$ copies of ${cal M}$ with a cyclic ordering. This gives an infinite sequence of tubular metrics such that the one relevant to ${cal L}{cal M}$ can be obtained by taking the limit $Nto infty$. Such metrics are computed by adopting an indirect method where the general tubular expansion theorem of [12] is crucially used. We discuss how the complete reparametrization isometry of loop space arises in the large-$N$ limit and verify that the corresponding Killing equation is satisfied to all orders in tubular expansion. These tubular metrics can alternatively be interpreted as some natural Riemannian metrics on certain bundles of tangent spaces of ${cal M}$ which, for ${cal M} times {cal M}$, is the tangent bundle $T{cal M}$.
In physics, experiments ultimately inform us as to what constitutes a good theoretical model of any physical concept: physical space should be no exception. The best picture of physical space in Newtonian physics is given by the configuration space of a free particle (or the center of mass of a closed system of particles). This configuration space (as well as phase space), can be constructed as a representation space for the relativity symmetry. From the corresponding quantum symmetry, we illustrate the construction of a quantum configuration space, similar to that of quantum phase space, and recover the classical picture as an approximation through a contraction of the (relativity) symmetry and its representations. The quantum Hilbert space reduces into a sum of one-dimensional representations for the observable algebra, with the only admissible states given by coherent states and position eigenstates for the phase and configuration space pictures, respectively. This analysis, founded firmly on known physics, provides a quantum picture of physical space beyond that of a finite-dimensional manifold, and provides a crucial first link for any theoretical model of quantum spacetime at levels beyond simple quantum mechanics. It also suggests looking at quantum physics from a different perspective.
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