Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
Deformations of thermo-algebras and of Fock spaces on a ring, and open quantum systems
R. Cartas-Fuentevilla
Abstract
Abstract Using a hyperbolic ring based formalism, it is shown that special unitary groups correspond to thermo-algebras for closed quantum systems, while for open systems, the full unitary algebra is the suitable underlying structure. Specifically the groups U (2) and U (1, 1) are realized as the dynamical symmetry groups for open quantum systems through continuous tensorial products; these unitary groups are obtained by mean of abelian extensions through U (1)-factors, from the standard thermo-algebras SU (2), and SU (1, 1).