Z2×Z2{\mathbb Z}_2\times {\mathbb Z}_2-graded parastatistics in multiparticle quantum Hamiltonians

Aug 26, 2020
35 pages
Published in:
  • J.Phys.A 54 (2021) 11, 115203
  • Published: Feb 25, 2021
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  • CBPF-NF-007/20

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Abstract: (IOP)
The recent surge of interest in -graded invariant mechanics poses the challenge of understanding the physical consequences of a -graded symmetry. In this paper it is shown that non-trivial physics can be detected in the multiparticle sector of a theory, being induced by the -graded parastatistics obeyed by the particles. The toy model of the supersymmetric/ -graded oscillator is used. In this set-up the one-particle energy levels and their degenerations are the same for both supersymmetric and -graded versions. Nevertheless, in the multiparticle sector, a measurement of an observable operator on suitable states can discriminate whether the system under consideration is composed by ordinary bosons/fermions or by -graded particles. Therefore, -graded mechanics has experimentally testable consequences. Furthermore, the -grading constrains the observables to obey a superselection rule. As a technical tool, the multiparticle sector is encoded in the coproduct of a Hopf algebra defined on a Universal enveloping algebra of a graded Lie superalgebra with a braided tensor product.
Note:
  • 37 pages
  • Z2 x Z2-graded superalgebras
  • parastatistics
  • Z2 x Z2-graded dynamical systems
  • Hopf algebras
  • supersymmetry: algebra
  • algebra: graded
  • algebra: Hopf
  • parastatistics
  • mechanics
  • superselection rule