Quantum Mechanics for Non-Archimedean Wave Functions

Youngho Jang

Andrei Yu. Khrennikov

張永浩

B.L. Spokoiny

Wilson A. Zúñiga-Galindo

We present a new non-Archimedean realization of the Fock representation of the q-oscillator algebras where the creation and annihilation operators act on complex-valued functions, which are defined on a non-Archimedean local field of arbitrary characteristic, for instance, the field of p-adic numbers. This new realization implies that many quantum models constructed using q-oscillator algebras are non-Archimedean models, in particular, p-adic quantum models. In this framework, we select a q-deformation of the Heisenberg uncertainty relation and construct the corresponding q-deformed Schrödinger equations. In this way we construct a p-adic quantum mechanics which is a p-deformed quantum mechanics. We also solve the time-independent Schrödinger equations for the free particle, and a particle in a non-Archimedean box. In the last case, we show the existence of a discrete sequence of energy levels. We determine the eigenvalues of Schrödinger operator for a general radial potential. By choosing the potential in a suitable form we recover the energy levels of the q-hydrogen atom.

Branko G Dragovich

p-Adic mathematical physics emerged as a result of efforts to find a non-Archimedean approach to the spacetime and string dynamics at the Planck scale. One of its main achievements is a successful formulation and development of p-adic and adelic quantum mechanics, which have complex-valued wave functions of p-adic and adelic arguments, respectively. Various aspects of these quantum mechanics are reviewed here. In particular, the corresponding Feynman's path integrals, some minisuperspace cosmological models, and relevant approache to string theory, are presented. As a result of adelic approach, p-adic effects exhibit a spacetime and some other discreteness, which depend on the adelic quantum state of the physical system under consideration. Besides review, this article contains also some new results.