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Quantum mechanics with space-time noncommutativity

Quantum Physics 2017-08-17 v1

Abstract

We construct an effective commutative Schr\"odinger equation in Moyal space-time in (1+1)(1+1)-dimension where both tt and xx are operator-valued and satisfy [t^,x^]=iθ\left[ \hat{t}, \hat{x} \right] = i \theta. Beginning with a time-reparametrised form of an action we identify the actions of various space-time coordinates and their conjugate momenta on quantum states, represented by Hilbert-Schmidt operators. Since time is also regarded as a configuration space variable, we show how an `induced' inner product can be extracted, so that an appropriate quantum mechanical interpretation is obtained. We then discuss several other applications of the formalism developed so far.

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@article{arxiv.1708.04769,
  title  = {Quantum mechanics with space-time noncommutativity},
  author = {Partha Nandi and Sayan Kumar Pal and Aritra N Bose and Biswajit Chakraborty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.04769},
  year   = {2017}
}
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