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"Topological" (Chern-Simons) quantum mechanics

G. V. Dunne, R. Jackiw, and C. A. Trugenberger

  • Center for Theoretical Physics, Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Phys. Rev. D 41, 661 – Published 15 January, 1990

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.41.661

Abstract

We construct quantum-mechanical models that are analogs of three-dimensional, topologically massive as well as Chern-Simons gauge-field theories, and we study the phase-space reductive limiting procedure that takes the former to the latter. The zero-point spectra of operators behave discontinuously in the limit, as a consequence of a nonperturbative quantum-mechanical anomaly. The nature of the limit for wave functions depends on the representation, but is always such that normalization is preserved.

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