Dynamics of algebras in quantum unstable systems

Marcelo Losada, Sebastian Fortin, Manuel Gadella, Federico Holik

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    Abstract

    We introduce a dynamical evolution operator for dealing with unstable physical process, such as scattering resonances, photon emission, decoherence and particle decay. With that aim, we use the formalism of rigged Hilbert space and represent the time evolution of quantum observables in the Heisenberg picture, in such a way that time evolution is nonunitary. This allows to describe observables that are initially noncommutative, but become commutative after time evolution. In other words, a non-abelian algebra of relevant observables becomes abelian when times goes to infinity. We finally present some relevant examples.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number1850109
    JournalInternational Journal of Modern Physics A : Particles & Fields, Gravitation, Cosmology, Nuclear Physics
    Volume33
    Issue number18-19
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 10 Jul 2018

    Keywords

    • Dynamical logics
    • algebras
    • rigged Hilbert space
    • unstable systems

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