Transformation Theory

Eugene P. Gross

Franz Mohling

In the first paper of this series, the master-graph formulation of the Lee-Yang quantum statistical theory for a degenerate Bose system was derived. In the present paper, this entire theory is transformed from a free-particle description to a quasiparticle description by means of a $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$ transformation. This transformation leaves the master-graph formulation of the theory essentially unchanged, while at the same time introducing the quasiparticle energy-momentum relation and the quasiparticle interaction function into the theory. The transformation is motivated by a study of the very low-temperature behavior of the fundamental integral equation of the theory. An interesting feature of the transformed theory is that it contains two quasiparticle energy-momentum relations, ${\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{+}(k)$ and ${\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{\ensuremath{-}}(k)$. The understanding of this result is not achieved in this paper, although the possibility of a double quasiparticle spectrum has previously been suggested by Lieb.

R. J. Finkelstein, E. Marcus

Arlen Anderson

Two quantum theories are physically equivalent if they are related, not by a unitary transformation, but by an isometric transformation. The conditions under which a quantum canonical transformation is an isometric transformation are given.

Lorenzo Catani

Abstract We investigate the relationship between two properties of quantum transformations often studied in popular subtheories of quantum theory: covariance of the Wigner representation of the theory and the existence of a transformation noncontextual ontological model of the theory. We consider subtheories of quantum theory specified by a set of states, measurements and transformations, defined specifying a group of unitaries, that map between states (and measurements) within the subtheory. We show that if there exists a Wigner representation of the subtheory which is covariant under the group of unitaries defining the set of transformations then the subtheory admits of a transformation noncontextual ontological model. We provide some concrete arguments to conjecture that the converse statement also holds provided that the underlying ontological model is the one given by the Wigner representation. In addition, we investigate the relationships of covariance and transformation noncontextuality with the existence of a quasiprobability distribution for the theory that represents the transformations as positivity preserving maps. We conclude that covariance implies transformation noncontextuality, which implies positivity preservation.