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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Quantum mechanics onp-adic numbers

Apostol Vourdas

Published Oct 15, 2008• 17 citations
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Abstract

A quantum system with positions in and momenta in is studied. Displacement operators in the phase space of this system and the corresponding Heisenberg–Weyl group are studied. It is shown that such a system can be constructed from a semi-infinite chain of spins which are coupled in a particular way.
DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/41/45/455303

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