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View SchemaRepresentation theory and Wigner-Racah algebra of the SU(2) group in a noncanonical basis
| Authors | M. R. Kibler |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0504025 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504025 |
| Journal | Dans Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications: a Special Issue in honor of Professor Josef Paldus, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Ed.) (2005) |
Abstract
The Lie algebra su(2) of the classical group SU(2) is built from two commuting quon algebras for which the deformation parameter is a common root of unity. This construction leads to (i) a not very well-known polar decomposition of the ladder generators of the SU(2) group, in terms of a unitary operator and a Hermitean operator, and (ii) a nonstandard quantization scheme, alternative to the usual quantization scheme correponding to the diagonalization of the Casimir of su(2) and of the z-generator. The representation theory of the SU(2) group can be developed in this nonstandard scheme. The key ideas for developing the Wigner-Racah algebra of the SU(2) group in the nonstandard scheme are given. In particular, some properties of the coupling and recoupling coefficients as well as the Wigner-Eckart theorem in the nonstandard scheme are examined in great detail.
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"abstract": "The Lie algebra su(2) of the classical group SU(2) is built from two\ncommuting quon algebras for which the deformation parameter is a common root of\nunity. This construction leads to (i) a not very well-known polar decomposition\nof the ladder generators of the SU(2) group, in terms of a unitary operator and\na Hermitean operator, and (ii) a nonstandard quantization scheme, alternative\nto the usual quantization scheme correponding to the diagonalization of the\nCasimir of su(2) and of the z-generator. The representation theory of the SU(2)\ngroup can be developed in this nonstandard scheme. The key ideas for developing\nthe Wigner-Racah algebra of the SU(2) group in the nonstandard scheme are\ngiven. In particular, some properties of the coupling and recoupling\ncoefficients as well as the Wigner-Eckart theorem in the nonstandard scheme are\nexamined in great detail.",
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"title": "Representation theory and Wigner-Racah algebra of the SU(2) group in a noncanonical basis",
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