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Physics of Atomic Nuclei

Finite Hamiltonian systems: Linear transformations and aberrations

Kurt Bernardo Wolf

Published Mar 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

Finite Hamiltonian systems contain operators of position, momentum, and energy, having a finite number N of equally-spaced eigenvalues. Such systems are under the æis of the algebra su(2), and their phase space is a sphere. Rigid motions of this phase space form the group SU(2); overall phases complete this to U(2). But since N-point states can be subject to U(N) ⊃U(2) transformations, the rest of the generators will provide all N 2 unitary transformations of the states, which appear as nonlinear transformations—aberrations—of the system phase space. They are built through the “finite quantization” of a classical optical system.

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10.1134/s1063778810030191

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In this essay we finitely quantize the Hamiltonian system of geometric optics to a finite system that is also Hamiltonian, but where signals are described by complex N-vectors, which are subject to unitary transformations that form the group U(N). This group can be decomposed into U(2)-paraxial and aberration transformations. Proper irreducible representation bases are thus provided by quantum angular momentum theory. For one-dimensional systems we have waveguide models. For two-dimensional systems we can have Cartesian or polar sensor arrays, where digital images are subject to unitary rotation, gyration or asymmetric Fourier transformations, as well as a unitary map between the two arrays.
Phase operators and phase states are introduced in the Hilbert space H2j+1{H}_{2j+1}H2j+1​ associated with the SU(2) group. The phase operators obey the SU(2) algebra and play a dual role to the standard angular-momentum operators. A finite Weyl group plays a fundamental role in those ideas. In the SU(1,1) case the exponential of the phase operators is nonunitary, and the phase states form an overcomplete set which is used to formulate an analytic representation.
The group‐theoretical structure of the harmonic oscillator appears in many guises. Originally developed by Marcos Moshinsky among several others for applications in nuclear physics, we point out here that the harmonic oscillator structure appears in aberrations of geometric optics, particularly in their classification by rank, symplectic spin and weight. And further, the finite harmonic oscillator appears again in the nonlinear transformations of finite Hamiltonian systems, when applied to the parallel processing of signals.
This thesis is concerned with the properties of dynamical systems with Hamiltonians which are general quadratic combinations of classical or quantum canonical variables or of Boson or Fermion annihilation and creation operators.Chapter I, consisting of six sections, deals mainly with sets of canonical forms for quadratic Hamiltonians under the action of the group of linear canonical transformations.By viewing the group of C.C.R.Bogoliubov transformations as Sp(2tf, i?) , a full set of canonical Boson Hamiltonians, labelled by the invariants for symplectic conjugacy classes, is obtained.Since the conjugacy class of a real orthogonal matrix is determined by its eigenvalues, there is only one type of canonical form for quadratic Fermion Hamiltonians.Unlike the Fermion case, indefinite Boson Hamiltonians can not in general be reduced to a sum of quasi-particle number operators.However, it is shown how spectral theory in Krein space rigorizes the full reduction of a strictly positive quadratic Boson Hamiltonian for which the single particle space is infinite dimensional.In the case of infinite degrees of freedom, there are various existence criteria for a unitary operator which implements a given Bogoliubov transformation and the equivalence of these is discussed in Section 6.Cahpter II, consisting of seven sections, applies the techniques of Chapter I to algebraic quantization.The Boson commutation relations , among formal mode operators obtained in heuristic quantization, are shown to be incompatible with the canonical commutation relations among conjugate variables unless the motion is stable.Segal quantization of any real