Path Integrals in Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics

We consider an extension of the Feynman path integral to the quantum mechanics of noncommuting spatial coordinates and formulate the corresponding formalism for noncommutative classical dynamics related to quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians). The basis of our approach is that a quantum mechanical system with a noncommutative configuration space can be regarded as another effective system with commuting spatial coordinates. Because the path integral for quadratic Lagrangians is exactly solvable and a general formula for the probability amplitude exists, we restrict our research to this class of Lagrangians. We find a general relation between quadratic Lagrangians in their commutative and noncommutative regimes and present the corresponding noncommutative path integral. This method is illustrated with two quantum mechanical systems in the noncommutative plane: a particle in a constant field and a harmonic oscillator.     

The emergence of time

Classically, one could imagine a completely static space, thus without time. As is known, this picture is unconceivable in quantum physics due to vacuum fluctuations. The fundamental difference between the two frameworks is that classical physics is commutative (simultaneous observables) while quantum physics is intrinsically noncommutative (Heisenberg uncertainty relations). In this sense, we may say that time is generated by noncommutativity; if this statement is correct, we should be able to derive time out of a noncommutative space. We know that a von Neumann algebra is a noncommutative space. About 50 years ago the Tomita–Takesaki modular theory revealed an intrinsic evolution associated with any given (faithful, normal) state of a von Neumann algebra, so a noncommutative space is intrinsically dynamical. This evolution is characterised by the Kubo–Martin–Schwinger thermal equilibrium condition in quantum statistical mechanics (Haag, Hugenholtz, Winnink), thus modular time is related to temperature. Indeed, positivity of temperature fixes a quantum-thermodynamical arrow of time. We shall sketch some aspects of our recent work extending the modular evolution to a quantum operation (completely positive map) level and how this gives a mathematically rigorous understanding of entropy bounds in physics and information theory. A key point is the relation with Jones’ index of subfactors. In the last part, we outline further recent entropy computations in relativistic quantum field theory models by operator algebraic methods, that can be read also within classical information theory. The information contained in a classical wave packet is defined by the modular theory of standard subspaces and related to the quantum null energy inequality.     

Noncommutative Integrability from Classical to Quantum Mechanics

We propose in this work a definition of integrable quantum system, which is based upon the correspondence with the concept of noncommutative integrability for classical mechanical systems. We then determine sufficient conditions under which, given an integrable classical system, it is possible to construct an integrable quantum system by means of a quantization procedure based on the symmetrized product of operators. As a first example of application of such an approach, we will consider the possible cases of noncommutative integrability for systems with rotational symmetry in an n-dimensional Euclidean configuration space.     

On formal quantum group laws

There exist natural generalizations of the concept of formal groups laws for noncommutative power series. This is a note on formal quantum group laws and quantum group law chunks. Formal quantum group laws correspond to noncommutative (topological) Hopf algebra structures on free associative power series algebras ká áx₁,...,x_m ? ?k\langle\! \langle x_1,\dots,x_m \rangle\! \rangle , k a field. Some formal quantum group laws occur as completions of noncommutative Hopf algebras (quantum groups). By truncating formal power series, one gets quantum group law chunks. ¶If the characteristic of k is 0, the category of (classical) formal group laws of given dimension m is equivalent to the category of m-dimensional Lie algebras. Given a formal group law or quantum group law (chunk), the corresponding Lie structure constants are determined by the coefficients of its chunk of degree 2. Among other results, a classification of all quantum group law chunks of degree 3 is given. There are many more classes of strictly isomorphic chunks of degree 3 than in the classical case.     

Quantum Probability: New Perspectives for the Laws of Chance

The main philosophical successes of quantum probability is the discovery that all the so-called quantum paradoxes have the same conceptual root and that such root is of probabilistic nature. This discovery marks the birth of quantum probability not as a purely mathematical (noncommutative) generalization of a classical theory, but as a conceptual turning point on the laws of chance, made necessary by experimental results.     

Construction of some new quantum MDS codes

Quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are an important class of quantum codes. In this paper, we mainly apply a new method of classical Hermitian self-orthogonal codes to construct three classes of new quantum MDS codes, and these quantum MDS codes provide large minimum distance.     

Noncommutative dynamics and generalized master equations

We review the basic concepts of quantum probability and stochastics using the universal Itô B*-algebra approach. The main notions and results of classical and quantum stochastics are reformulated in this unifying approach. The general Lévy process is defined in terms of the modular B*-Itô algebra, and the corresponding quantum stochastic master equation on the predual space of theW*-algebra is derived as a noncommutative version of the Zakai equation driven by the process. This is done by a noncommutative analog of the Girsanov transformation, which we introduce here in full generality.     

Gross Laplacian Acting on Operators

In this paper, we introduce a noncommutative extension of the Gross Laplacian, called quantum Gross Laplacian, acting on some analytical operators. For this purpose, we use a characterization theorem between this class of operators and their symbols. Applying the quantum Gross Laplacian to the particular case where the operator is the multiplication one, we establishes a relation between the classical and the quantum Gross Laplacians.      

A noncommutative extended de Finetti theorem

The extended de Finetti theorem characterizes exchangeable infinite sequences of random variables as conditionally i.i.d. and shows that the apparently weaker distributional symmetry of spreadability is equivalent to exchangeability. Our main result is a noncommutative version of this theorem.In contrast to the classical result of Ryll-Nardzewski, exchangeability turns out to be stronger than spreadability for infinite sequences of noncommutative random variables. Out of our investigations emerges noncommutative conditional independence in terms of a von Neumann algebraic structure closely related to Popa's notion of commuting squares and Kümmerer's generalized Bernoulli shifts. Our main result is applicable to classical probability, quantum probability, in particular free probability, braid group representations and Jones subfactors.     

CONSTRUCTION OF APPROXIMATE ATTAINABILITY SETS FOR LIPSCHITZIAN QUANTUM STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL INCLUSIONS

We present a numerical method for constructing, with a specified accuracy attainability sets for Lipschitzian quantum stochastic differential inclusions. Results here generalize the Komarov-Pevchikh results concerning classical differential inclusions to the present noncommutative quantum setting involving unbounded linear operators on a Hilbert space.

AMS Subject Classification (1991): 60H10, 60H20, 65L05, 81S25.     

New quantum MDS codes with large minimum distance and short length from generalized Reed–Solomon codes

Quantum maximum-distance-separable (MDS) codes are an important class of quantum codes. In this paper we mainly use classical Hermitian self-orthogonal generalized Reed–Solomon codes to construct three classes of new quantum MDS codes. Further, these quantum MDS codes have large minimum distance and short length.     

Asymmetric quantum Griesmer codes detecting a single bit-flip error

The quest to build large-scale quantum computing devices depends on keeping the noise level below a fault-tolerance threshold. In this paper we derive the asymmetric quantum analogue of the Griesmer bound. To benefit from the noise asymmetry in many physical systems, one can decide to only detect a single bit-flip error while maximizing control over the phase-flip errors. We present constructions of such codes via the classical Griesmer codes and obtain infinite families. The optimality of the parameters of the codes in the families is measured against the quantum Griesmer bound. Numerous other codes, which may not be optimal, can also be derived. Choices of their design provide greater flexibility in terms of the resulting quantum parameters. We give examples of good qubit, qutrit, and ququad codes from such a route.     

The K-Theory of Heegaard-Type Quantum 3-Spheres

We use a Heegaard splitting of the topological 3-sphere as a guiding principle to construct a family of its noncommutative deformations. The main technical point is an identification of the universal C^*-algebras defining our quantum 3-spheres with an appropriate fiber product of crossed-product C^*-algebras. Then we employ this result to show that the K-groups of our family of noncommutative 3-spheres coincide with their classical counterparts. Dedicated to the memory of Olaf Richter An erratum to this article is available at .     

Quantum extensions of semigroups generated by Bessel processes

We construct a quantum extension of the Markov semigroup of the classical Bessel process of orderv≥1 to the noncommutative von Neumann algebra ß(L ²(0, +∞)) of bounded operators onL ²(0, +∞).     

Noncommutative structures

We propose a method for constructing noncommutative analogs of objects from classical calculus, differential geometry, topology, dynamical systems, etc. The standard (commutative) objects can be obtained from noncommutative ones by natural projections (a set of canonical homomorphisms). The approach is ideologically close to the noncommutative geometry of A. Connes but differs from it in technical details.     

Constructions of new families of nonbinary CSS codes

New families of good q-ary (q is an odd prime power) Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) quantum codes derived from two distinct classical Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) codes, not necessarily self-orthogonal, are constructed. These new families consist of CSS codes whose parameters are better than the ones available in the literature and comparable to the parameters of quantum BCH codes generated by applying the q-ary Steane’s enlargement of CSS codes.     

Wigner functions for the Landau problem in noncommutative quantum mechanics

We study the Wigner function in noncommutative quantum mechanics. By solving the time-independent Schrödinger equation on both a noncommutative space and a noncommutative phase space, we obtain the Wigner function for the Landau problem on those spaces.     

Quasi-cyclic codes as codes over rings of matrices

Quasi-cyclic codes over a finite field are viewed as cyclic codes over a noncommutative ring of matrices over a finite field. This point of view permits to generalize some known results about linear recurring sequences and to propose a new construction of some quasi-cyclic codes and self-dual codes.     

Noncommutative analog of functional superanalysis

A noncommutative analysis is constructed that is a natural extension of the Vladimirov-Volovich superanalysis (instead of supercommutative Banach superalgebras, arbitrary noncommutative Banach algebras are considered). On the basis of this analysis, a noncommutative theory of generalized functions with further applications to Feynman integration is developed. As noncommutative algebras, the Weyl and Clifford algebras, and also other algebras of quantum observables can be considered.State Institute of Electronic Technology, Moscow. Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 103, No. 2, pp. 233–245, May, 1995.