Quantum lattice models that preserve continuous translation symmetry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07649v2
• Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 06:41:42 GMT
• Title: Quantum lattice models that preserve continuous translation symmetry
• Authors: Dominic G. Lewis, Achim Kempf, Nicolas C. Menicucci
• Abstract summary: Bandlimited continuous quantum fields are isomorphic to lattice theories, yet without requiring a fixed lattice. This is an isomorphism that avoids taking the limit of the lattice spacing going to zero. One obtains conserved lattice observables for these continuous symmetries, as well as a duality of locality from the two perspectives.
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• Abstract: Bandlimited approaches to quantum field theory offer the tantalizing possibility of working with fields that are simultaneously both continuous and discrete via the Shannon Sampling Theorem from signal processing. Conflicting assumptions in general relativity and quantum field theory motivate the use of such an appealing analytical tool that could thread the needle to meet both requirements. Bandlimited continuous quantum fields are isomorphic to lattice theories, yet without requiring a fixed lattice. Any lattice with a required minimum spacing can be used. This is an isomorphism that avoids taking the limit of the lattice spacing going to zero. In this work, we explore the consequences of this isomorphism, including the emergence of effectively continuous symmetries in quantum lattice theories. One obtains conserved lattice observables for these continuous symmetries, as well as a duality of locality from the two perspectives. We expect this work and its extensions to provide useful tools for considering numerical lattice models of continuous quantum fields arising from the availability of discreteness without a fixed lattice, as well as offering new insights into emergent continuous symmetries in lattice models and possible laboratory demonstrations of these phenomena.

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