arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv周末暂无论文更新,休息一下吧,周末愉快~~

量化引导中心:量子化与粗粒化是否可交换?

Quantizing the guiding center: do quantization and coarse graining commute?

Rodrigo Andrade e Silva, Ted Jacobson

arXiv 2608.26277首次发表:更新:

AI 中文总结

该研究通过群论量子化二维磁场中带电粒子的引导中心理论,对比其与微观理论的粗粒化结果,发现有效理论量子化会产生微观理论不存在的虚假非微扰预测。

AI 中文摘要

我们针对二维空间中磁场内漂移的带电粒子的有效引导中心理论,发展了一种非微扰的群论量子化方法,并将所得量子理论与底层微观理论的对应粗粒化结果进行比较。在经典有效理论中,小回旋运动未被分辨,而回旋轨道中心的运动仍可观测;约化相空间即为物理空间本身,因此量子化会导致空间坐标非对易,有效理论无法获取物理空间的度规结构,仅保留其面积结构。通过制定微观量子理论与有效量子理论的匹配规则,我们发现量子化有效理论的预测通常与微观理论一致,但对于闭合等磁轮廓,有效理论预测出“半径”的量子化,这是微观理论中不存在的空间离散性。这表明,即使有效量子理论未出现内部崩溃迹象,对其进行量子化也可能产生虚假的非微扰预测。

英文摘要

We develop a nonperturbative, group-theoretic quantization of the effective guiding center theory of a charged particle drifting in a magnetic field in two spatial dimensions, and compare the resulting quantum theory with a corresponding coarse graining of the underlying microscopic theory. In the classical effective theory, the small gyro motion is not resolved, while the motion of the center of the gyro orbit remains observable. The reduced phase space is the physical space itself, so quantization leads to noncommuting spatial coordinates, and the effective theory loses access to the metric structure of physical space, retaining only its area structure. By formulating a prescription to match between the microscopic and effective quantum theories, we find that the predictions of the quantized effective theory are generally consistent with those of the microscopic theory. However, for closed isomagnetic contours the effective theory predicts a quantization of ``radius'', a spatial discreteness absent from the microscopic theory. This illustrates that quantization of an effective theory may yield spurious nonperturbative predictions, even if that quantum theory shows no internal signs of breakdown.

Comments73 pages

论文原文

arXiv 摘要页 · PDF 原文 · HTML 原文

↑