Introduction to coherent quantization

Arnold Neumaier, Arash Ghaani Farashahi

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Abstract

This paper studies coherent quantization, the way operators in the quantum space of a coherent space—defined in the recent book ’Coherent Quantum Mechanics’ by the first author—can be studied in terms of objects defined directly on the coherent space. The results may be viewed as a generalization of geometric quantization, including the non-unitary case. Care has been taken to work with the weakest meaningful topology and to assume as little as possible about the spaces and groups involved. Unlike in geometric quantization, the groups are not assumed to be compact, locally compact, or finite-dimensional. This implies that the setting can be successfully applied to quantum field theory, where the groups involved satisfy none of these properties. The paper characterizes linear operators acting on the quantum space of a coherent space in terms of their coherent matrix elements. Coherent maps and associated symmetry groups for coherent spaces are introduced, and formulas are derived for the quantization of coherent maps. The importance of coherent maps for quantum mechanics is due to the fact that there is a quantization map that associates homomorphically with every coherent map a linear operator from the quantum space into itself. The quantization map generalizes the second quantization procedure for free classical fields to symmetry groups of general coherent spaces. Field quantization is obtained by specialization to Klauder spaces, whose quantum spaces are the bosonic Fock spaces. Implied by the new approach is a short, coordinate-free derivation of all basic properties of creation and annihilation operators in Fock spaces.

Original languageEnglish
Article number91
Pages (from-to)1 - 47
JournalAnalysis and Mathematical Physics
Volume12
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2022

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 101002 Analysis

Keywords

  • Coherent space
  • Coherent state
  • Fock space
  • Geometric quantization
  • Quantization

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