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Quantum mechanics on noncommutative Riemann surfaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-07 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Algebra

Abstract

We study the quantum mechanics of a charged particle on a constant curvature noncommutative Riemann surface in the presence of a constant magnetic field. We formulate the problem by considering quantum mechanics on the noncommutative AdS_2 covering space and gauging a discrete symmetry group which defines a genus-g surface. Although there is no magnetic field quantization on the covering space, a quantization condition is required in order to have single-valued states on the Riemann surface. For noncommutative AdS_2 and subcritical values of the magnetic field the spectrum has a discrete Landau level part as well as a continuum, while for overcritical values we obtain a purely noncommutative phase consisting entirely of Landau levels.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0201070,
  title  = {Quantum mechanics on noncommutative Riemann surfaces},
  author = {Bogdan Morariu and Alexios P. Polychronakos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0201070},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

18 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in Nucl.Phys.B

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