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Commutation Relations in Mesoscopic Electric Circuits

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

In the talk, I briefly demonstrate the quantum theory for mesoscopic electric circuits and its applications. In the theory, the importance of the charge discreteness in a mesoscopic electric circuit is addressed. As a result, a new kind of commutation relation for electric charge and current occurred inevitably. The charge representation, canonical current representation and pseudo-current representation are discussed extensively. It not only provides a concrete realization of mathematical models which discuss the space quantization in high energy physics and quantum gravity but also presents a sequence of applications in condensed matter physics from a different point of view. A possible generalization to coupled circuits is also proposed.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009352,
  title  = {Commutation Relations in Mesoscopic Electric Circuits},
  author = {You-Quan Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009352},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, talk at ``Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations'' Capri 2000