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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

The principle of the indistinguishability of identical particles and the Lie algebraic approach to the field quantisation

A. B. Govorkov

Published May 1, 1980• 18 citations
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Abstract

The density matrix, rather than the wavefunction describing the system of a fixed number of non-relativistic identical particles, is subject to the second quantisation. Here the bilinear operators which move a particle from a given state to another appear and satisfy the Lie algebraic relations of the unitary group SU(p) when the dimension p to infinity . The drawing into consideration of the system with a variable number of particles implies the extension of this algebra into one of the simple Lie algebras of classical (orthogonal, symplectic or unitary) groups in the even-dimensional spaces. These Lie algebras correspond to the para-Fermi-, para-Bose- and para-uniquantisation of fields, respectively.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/13/5/025

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The density matrix, rather than the wavefunction describing the system of a fixed number of non-relativistic identical particles, is subject to the second quantisation. Here the bilinear operators which move a particle from a given state to another appear and satisfy the Lie algebraic relations of the unitary group SU(p) when the dimension p to infinity . The drawing into consideration of the system with a variable number of particles implies the extension of this algebra into one of the simple Lie algebras of classical (orthogonal, symplectic or unitary) groups in the even-dimensional spaces. These Lie algebras correspond to the para-Fermi-, para-Bose- and para-uniquantisation of fields, respectively.
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Details of the many-particle system can also be read from my book titled “Quantum Field Theory: Feynman Path Integrals and Diagrammatic Techniques in Condensed Matter” [ 23 ]. The fundamental difference between classical and quantum mechanics relates the concept of indistinguishability of identical particles where each particle can be equipped with an identifying marker without influencing its behavior in classical mechanics. Besides in classical mechanics, the particle follows its own continuous path in phase space and so it is possible to determine the particular process taking place. So, principally, each particle in a group of identical particles can be identified which is not so in quantum mechanics. It is not possible to mark a particle without influencing its physical state, and worse, if a number of identical particles are brought to the same region in space, their wave functions will rapidly spread out and overlap with one another, thereby soon rendering it impossible to say which particle is where. One of the fundamental assumptions for many-particle systems is therefore that identical particles (i.e., particles characterized by the same quantum numbers such as mass, charge and spin) are, in principle, indistinguishable.