Group Theory and Representation Theory for Identical Particles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14091v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 04:59:49 GMT
• Title: Group Theory and Representation Theory for Identical Particles
• Authors: James Daniel Whitfield,
• Abstract summary: This chapter is an offshoot of a larger work that provides a graduate-level introduction to quantum information science.<n>It has grown beyond a short digression into a full-fledged journey into the symmetries and representations of identical particles.
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• Abstract: Few, if any, applications of quantum technology are as widely known as the quantum simulation of quantum matter. Consequently, many interesting questions have been sparked at the intersection of condensed matter, quantum chemistry, and quantum computing. Given the common mathematical foundation of these subjects, we walk through the necessary group theory and representation theory serving as background in all of these fields. Our discussion will include a full development of the mathematics of identical particles and the mechanics of describing systems of identical particles in both first and second quantization schemes. This chapter is an offshoot of a larger work that provides a graduate-level introduction to quantum information science. This chapter is being released separately because it is not explicitly focused on quantum information. It has grown beyond a short digression into a full-fledged journey into the symmetries and representations of identical particles that we invite you, the reader, to join.

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