Quantization of the ModMax Oscillator

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Main Authors: Ferko, Christian, Gupta, Alisha, Iyer, Eashan
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author Ferko, Christian
Gupta, Alisha
Iyer, Eashan
author_facet Ferko, Christian
Gupta, Alisha
Iyer, Eashan
contents We quantize the ModMax oscillator, which is the dimensional reduction of the Modified Maxwell theory to one spacetime dimension. We show that the propagator of the ModMax oscillator satisfies a differential equation related to the Laplace equation in cylindrical coordinates, and we obtain expressions for the classical and quantum partition functions of the theory. To do this, we develop general results for deformations of quantum mechanical theories by functions of conserved charges. We show that canonical quantization and path integral quantization of such deformed theories are equivalent only if one uses the phase space path integral; this gives a precise quantum analogue of the statement that classical deformations of the Lagrangian are equivalent to those of the Hamiltonian.
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spellingShingle Quantization of the ModMax Oscillator
Ferko, Christian
Gupta, Alisha
Iyer, Eashan
High Energy Physics - Theory
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
We quantize the ModMax oscillator, which is the dimensional reduction of the Modified Maxwell theory to one spacetime dimension. We show that the propagator of the ModMax oscillator satisfies a differential equation related to the Laplace equation in cylindrical coordinates, and we obtain expressions for the classical and quantum partition functions of the theory. To do this, we develop general results for deformations of quantum mechanical theories by functions of conserved charges. We show that canonical quantization and path integral quantization of such deformed theories are equivalent only if one uses the phase space path integral; this gives a precise quantum analogue of the statement that classical deformations of the Lagrangian are equivalent to those of the Hamiltonian.
title Quantization of the ModMax Oscillator
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
Statistical Mechanics
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06015