Quantum Hilbert spaces and their creation

M. Arık, Darryl D. Coon

Generalized coherent states which are associated with a generalization of the harmonic oscillator commutation relation are investigated. It is shown that these states form an overcomplete basis in a Hilbert space of analytic functions. The generalized creation and annihilation operators are bounded except in a limit in which they reduce to the usual boson creation and annihilation operators. In this limit the Hilbert space of analytic functions reduces to the Bargmann–Segal Hilbert space of entire functions and in another limit it reduces to the Hardy–Lebesgue space.

Donald H. Kobe

A review of the second quantization formulation of quantum mechanics is given based on the idea of a graded Hilbert space whose elements are represented by column matrices containing zero, one, two, ···, particle functions. The creation and annihilation operators are defined in terms of intuitive ideas about adding a particle to or removing a particle from the system. The (anti)commutation relations are shown to follow from the (anti)symmetry of the wavefunctions. The field operators which describe the creation or annihilation of a particle at a point are then obtained and their properties discussed. These operators are then used to express general operators in second quantization. Finally, a basis is introduced and the equations of occupation-number space are obtained.

Charis Anastopoulos

Giovanni Acquaviva, Alfredo Iorio, L. A. Smaldone

In Polymer Quantum Mechanics, a quantization scheme that naturally emerges from Loop Quantum Gravity, position and momentum operators cannot be both well defined on the Hilbert space [Formula: see text]. It is henceforth deemed impossible to define standard creation and annihilation operators. In this paper, we show that a [Formula: see text]-oscillator structure, and hence [Formula: see text]-deformed creation/annihilation operators, can be naturally defined on [Formula: see text], which is then mapped into the sum of many copies of the [Formula: see text]-oscillator Hilbert space. This shows that the [Formula: see text]-calculus is a natural calculus for Polymer Quantum Mechanics. Moreover, we show that the inequivalence of different superselected sectors of [Formula: see text] is of topological nature.

Hans Luth