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评“有限维希尔伯特空间中任意系统的量子相位”

Comment on "Quantum phase for an arbitrary system with finite-dimensional Hilbert space"

Michael J. W. Hall, David T. Pegg

摘要:

对于能量本征值有限的哈密顿量,最近D。Arsenovic等人[Phys.Rev.A85,044103(2012)]。对于产生周期演化的哈密顿量,我们证明了这种构造只是对已知的正则“时间”或“年龄”观测值的简单重新标度,周期T重新标度为2π。此外,对于生成准周期演化的哈密顿算子,我们注意到,该构造导致相位观测具有几个不期望的特征,包括(i)对于系统的任何状态具有平凡均匀的概率密度,(ii)在适当的限制下不减少到周期性情况,以及(iii)没有任何明确的推广到无限能谱。相比之下,我们注意到,一个协变的时间观测已被定义为这样的哈密顿量,这避免了这些功能。我们还展示了如何“准周期”的时间观测可以表示为一个序列的周期性时间观测的定义明确的限制。

英文摘要:

A construction of covariant quantum phase observables, for Hamiltonians with a finite number of energy eigenvalues, has been recently given by D. Arsenovic et al. [Phys. Rev. A 85, 044103 (2012)]. For Hamiltonians generating periodic evolution, we show that this construction is just a simple rescaling of the known canonical 'time' or 'age' observable, with the period T rescaled to 2π. Further, for Hamiltonians generating quasiperiodic evolution, we note that the construction leads to a phase observable having several undesirable features, including (i) having a trivially uniform probability density for any state of the system, (ii) not reducing to the periodic case in an appropriate limit, and (iii) not having any clear generalisation to an infinite energy spectrum. In contrast, we note that a covariant time observable has been previously defined for such Hamiltonians, which avoids these features. We also show how this 'quasiperiodic' time observable can be represented as the well-defined limit of a sequence of periodic time observables.

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