Quantum stereographic projection and the homographic oscillator
Date
1996Source Title
Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Print ISSN
1050-2947
Publisher
American Physical Society
Volume
54
Issue
1
Pages
52 - 56
Language
English
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Abstract
The quantum deformation created by the stenographic mapping from S2 to C is studied. It is shown that the resulting algebra is locally isomorphic to su(2) and is an unconventional deformation of which the undeformed limit is a contraction onto the harmonic oscillator algebra. The deformation parameter is given naturally by the central invariant of the embedding su(2). The deformed algebra is identified as a member of a larger class of quartic q oscillators. We next study the deformations in the corresponding Jordan-Schwinger representation of two independent deformed oscillators and solve for the deforming transformation. The invertibility of this transformation guarantees an implicit coproduct law which is also discussed. Finally we discuss the analogy between Poincaré's geometric interpretation of the quantum Stokes parameters of polarization and the stereographic projection as an important physical application of the latter.
Keywords
AlgebraEigenvalues and eigenfunctions
Invariance
Iterative methods
Mathematical operators
Mathematical transformations
Nonlinear equations
Coproduct law
Fibonacci series
Homographic oscillators
Poincare geometry
Quantum stereographic projection
Quantum Stokes parameters
Quantum theory