Symmetry and Topology in Quantum Logic

A test space is a collection of non-empty sets, usually construed as the catalogue of (discrete) outcome sets associated with a family of experiments. Subject to a simple combinatorial condition called algebraicity, a test space gives rise to a “quantum logic”—that is, an orthoalgebra. Conversely, all orthoalgebras arise naturally from algebraic test spaces. In non-relativistic quantum mechanics, the relevant test space is the set ℱ F(H) of frames (unordered orthonormal bases) of a Hilbert space H. The corresponding logic is the usual one, i.e., the projection lattice L(H) of H. The test space ℱ F(H) has a strong symmetry property with respect to the unitary group of H, namely, that any bijection between two frames lifts to a unitary operator. In this paper, we consider test spaces enjoying the same symmetry property relative to an action by a compact topological group. We show that such a test space, if algebraic, gives rise to a compact, atomistic topological orthoalgebra. We also present a construction that generates such a test space from purely group-theoretic data, and obtain a simple criterion for this test space to be algebraic. PACS: 02.10.Ab; 02.20.Bb; 03.65.Ta.     

Topological Invariants for Lens Spaces and Exceptional Quantum Groups

The Reshetikhin–Turaev invariants arising from the quantum groups associated with the exceptional Lie algebras G2, F4 and E8 at odd roots of unity are constructed and explicitly computed for all the lens spaces.     

Differential Calculus on Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

The notion of quantum tangent space of a covariant first-order differential calculus over a quantum homogeneous space is established.     

Construction of Covariant Differential Calculi on Quantum Homogeneous Spaces

A method of constructing covariant differential calculi on a quantum homogeneous space is devised. The function algebra of the quantum homogeneous space is assumed to be a left coideal of a coquasitriangular Hopf algebra and to contain the coefficients of any matrix over which is the two-sided inverse of one with entries in . The method is based on partial derivatives. For the quantum sphere of Podle and the quantizations of symmetric spaces due to Noumi, Dijkhuizen and Sugitani, the construction produces the subcalculi of the standard bicovariant calculus on the quantum group.     

Antosik-Mikusinski Matrix Convergence Theorem in Quantum Logics

In this paper we establish the order topology type Antosik-Mikusinski infinite matrix convergence theorem in quantum logics. As application, we prove the Hahn-Schur summation theorem in quantum logics, too.     

拓扑绝缘体及其研究进展

拓扑绝缘体是当前凝聚态物理领域中的一个热点问题.这类材料的典型特征是体内元激发存在能隙,但在边界上具有受拓扑保护的无能隙边缘激发.从广义上讲,拓扑绝缘体可以分两大类:一类是破坏时间反演的量子霍尔体系,另一类是新近发现的时间反演不变的拓扑绝缘体.这些新材料的奇特物理性质和潜在的应用前景,使其倍受人们关注.文章对这种新奇物态的物理性质和研究进展做了简要的介绍.     

Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics

We consider a semantics based on the peculiar holistic features of the quantum formalism. Any formula of the language gives rise to a quantum circuit that transforms the density operator associated to the formula into the density operator associated to the atomic subformulas in a reversible way. The procedure goes from the whole to the parts against the compositionality-principle and gives rise to a semantic characterization for a new form of quantum logic that has been called “Łukasiewicz quantum computational logic”. It is interesting to compare the logic based on qubit-semantics with that on qudit-semantics. Having in mind the relationships between classical logic and Łukasiewicz-many valued logics, one could expect that the former is stronger than the fragment of the latter. However, this is not the case. From an intuitive point of view, this can be explained by recalling that the former is a very weak form of logic. Many important logical arguments, which are valid either in Birkhoff and von Neumann’s quantum logic or in classical logic, are generally violated.     

Quantic Superpositions and the Geometry of Complex Hilbert Spaces

The concept of a superposition is a revolutionary novelty introduced by Quantum Mechanics. If a system may be in any one of two pure states x and y, we must consider that it may also be in any one of many superpositions of x and y. An in-depth analysis of superpositions is proposed, in which states are represented by one-dimensional subspaces, not by unit vectors as in Dirac’s notation. Superpositions must be considered when one cannot distinguish between possible paths, i.e., histories, leading to the current state of the system. In such a case the resulting state is some compound of the states that result from each of the possible paths. States can be compounded, i.e., superposed in such a way only if they are not orthogonal. Since different classical states are orthogonal, the claim implies no non-trivial superpositions can be observed in classical systems. The parameter that defines such compounds is a proportion defining the mix of the different states entering the compound. Two quantities, p and θ, both geometrical in nature, relate one-dimensional subspaces in complex Hilbert spaces: the first one is a measure of proximity relating two rays, the second one is an angle relating three rays. The properties of superpositions with respect to those two quantities are studied. The algebraic properties of the operation of superposition are very different from those that govern linear combination of vectors. This work was partially supported by the Jean and Helene Alfassa fund for research in Artificial Intelligence, by the Israel Science Foundation grant 183/03 on “Quantum and other cumulative logics” and by EPSRC Visiting Fellowship GR/T 24562 on “Quantum Logic”.     

Topological Structure of Chern-Simons Vortex

Based on the gauge potential decomposition theory and the φ-mapping method, the topological inner structure of the Chern-Sirnons-Higgs vortex has been studied strictly. It is shown that there exits a multi-charged vortex at every zero point of the Higgs scalar field φ. The multivortex solutions in the Chern-Simons-Higgs model are obtained strictly.     

Entropy as a Topological Operad Derivation

We share a small connection between information theory, algebra, and topology—namely, a correspondence between Shannon entropy and derivations of the operad of topological simplices. We begin with a brief review of operads and their representations with topological simplices and the real line as the main example. We then give a general definition for a derivation of an operad in any category with values in an abelian bimodule over the operad. The main result is that Shannon entropy defines a derivation of the operad of topological simplices, and that for every derivation of this operad there exists a point at which it is given by a constant multiple of Shannon entropy. We show this is compatible with, and relies heavily on, a well-known characterization of entropy given by Faddeev in 1956 and a recent variation given by Leinster.     

Quantum-Logics-Valued Measure Convergence Theorem

In this paper, the following quantum-logic valued measure convergence theorem is proved: Let (L ₁, 0, 1) be a Boolean algebra, (L ₂, , , 0, 1) be a quantum logic and { _n : n N} be a sequence of s-bounded (L ₂, , , 0, 1)-valued measures which are defined on (L ₁, 0, 1). If for each a (L ₁, 0, 1), { _n (a)} _{n N} is an order topology Cauchy sequence, when {v(a)} convergent to 0, { _n (a)} is order topology convergent to 0 for each n N, where v is a nonnegative finite additive measure which is defined on (L ₁, 0, 1), then when {v(a)} convergent to 0, { _n (a)} are order topology convergent to 0 uniformly with respect to n N.     

利用超导量子电路模拟拓扑量子材料

近年来,探索新的拓扑量子材料、研究拓扑材料的新奇物理性质成为凝聚态物理领域的一个热点.但是,由于合成、测量等手段的限制,人们难以在真实材料中实现和观测很多理论预言的材料及其物理性质,促使量子模拟日益成为研究量子多体系统的一个重要手段.作为全固态器件,超导量子电路是一个在扩展性、集成性、调控性上都具有巨大优势的人工量子系统,是实现量子模拟的重要方案.本文总结了利用超导量子电路对时间-空间反演对称性保护的拓扑半金属、Hopf-link半金属和Maxwell半金属等拓扑材料的量子模拟,显示出超导量子电路在模拟凝聚态物理系统方面具有广阔前景.     

拓扑近藤绝缘体

拓扑近藤绝缘体自10年前被提出后,很快成为第一个被实验证实的强关联拓扑材料。文章回顾了拓扑近藤绝缘体六硼化钐中的重要实验结果,并进一步分析了该材料中的关键科学问题和对未来研究的展望。     

人工带隙材料的拓扑性质

近年来,人工带隙材料(如声子晶体和光子晶体)由于其优异的性能,已成为新一代智能材料的研究焦点.另一方面,材料拓扑学由凝聚态物理领域逐渐延伸到其他粒子或准粒子系统,而研究人工带隙材料的拓扑性质更是受到人们的广泛关注,其特有的鲁棒边界态,具有缺陷免疫、背散射抑制和自旋轨道锁定的传输等特性,潜在应用前景巨大.本文简要介绍拓扑材料特有的鲁棒边界态的物理图像及其物理意义,并列举诸如光/声量子霍尔效应、量子自旋霍尔效应、Floquet拓扑绝缘体等相关工作;利用Dirac方程,从原理上分析光/声拓扑性质的由来;最后对相关领域的发展方向和应用前景进行了相应的讨论.     

拓扑近藤半金属

拓扑物态是凝聚态物理近年来最重要的研究领域之一。随着研究的不断深入,对拓扑物态的研究逐渐从弱关联材料体系拓展到了强关联材料体系。文章梳理了近年来对拓扑近藤半金属的相关研究,介绍了其中的理论模型、计算方法和一些候选材料及实验研究,并对该方向未来的发展做了展望。     

Tau-functions on Hurwitz Spaces

We construct a flat holomorphic line bundle over a connected component of the Hurwitz space of branched coverings of the Riemann sphere P ¹. A flat holomorphic connection defining the bundle is described in terms of the invariant Wirtinger projective connection on the branched covering corresponding to a given meromorphic function on a Riemann surface of genus g. In genera 0 and 1 we construct a nowhere vanishing holomorphic horizontal section of this bundle (the ‘Wirtinger tau-function’). In higher genus we compute the modulus square of the Wirtinger tau-function. In particular one gets formulas for the isomonodromic tau-functions of semisimple Frobenius manifolds connected with the Hurwitz spaces H _g,N (1,⋯,1). This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

On q-Analogues of Bounded Symmetric Domains and Dolbeault Complexes

A very well known result by Harish-Chandra claims that any Hermitiansymmetric space of non-compact type admits a canonical embedding into acomplex vector space V. The image of this embedding is a bounded symmetricdomain in V. This work provides a construction of q-analogues of apolynomial algebra on V and the differential algebra of exterior forms on V.A way of producing a q-analogue of the bounded function algebra in a boundedsymmetric domain is described. All the constructions are illustrated bydetailed calculations in the case of the simplest Hermitian symmetric spaceSU (1,1)/U(1).     

Relativities and Homogeneous Spaces I

Special relativity, the symmetry breakdown in the electroweak standard model, and the dichotomy of the spacetime related transformations with the Lorentz group, on the one side, and the chargelike transformations with the hypercharge and isospin group, on the other side, are discussed under the common concept of “relativity.” A relativity is defined by classes G/H of “little” group in a “general” group of operations. Relativities are representable as linear transformations that are considered for five physically relevant examples.Finite Dimensional Relativity Representations