A linear chain of interacting harmonic oscillators: solutions as a Wigner Quantum System
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Abstract. We consider a quantum mechanical system consisting of a linear chain of harmonic oscillators coupled by a nearest neighbor interaction. The system configuration can be closed (periodic boundary conditions) or open (non-periodic case). We show that such systems can be considered as Wigner Quantum Systems (WQS), thus yielding extra solutions apart from the canonical solution. In particular, a class of WQS-solutions is given in terms of unitary representations of the Lie superalgebra gl(1|n). In order to determine physical properties of the new solutions, one needs to solve a number of interesting but difficult representation theoretical problems. We present these problems and their solution, and show how the new results yield attractive properties for the quantum system (energy spectrum, position probabilities, spacial properties).
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