FCSetPauliSigmaScheme[scheme]
allows you to specify how Pauli matrices will be handled in D-1 dimensions.
This is mainly related to the commutator of two Pauli matrices, which involves a Levi-Civita tensor. The latter is not a well-defined quantity in D-1 dimensions. Following schemes are supported:
"None"
- This is the default value. The anticommutator relation is not applied to D-1 dimensional Pauli matrices.
"Naive"
- Naively apply the commutator relation in D-1-dimensions, i.e. \{\sigma^i, \sigma^j \} = 2 i \varepsilon^{ijk} \sigma^k. The Levi-Civita tensor lives in D-1-dimensions, so that a contraction of two such tensors which have all indices in common yields (D-3) (D-2) (D-1).
Overview, PauliSigma, FCGetPauliSigmaScheme.
[] FCGetPauliSigmaScheme
\text{None}
[i, j, k]
CSID
[%, PauliReduce -> True] PauliSimplify
\sigma ^i.\sigma ^j.\sigma ^k
\sigma ^i.\sigma ^j.\sigma ^k
["Naive"]; FCSetPauliSigmaScheme
[] FCGetPauliSigmaScheme
\text{Naive}
= PauliSimplify[CSID[i, j, k], PauliReduce -> True] ex
i \overset{\text{}}{\epsilon }^{ijk}+D \sigma ^i \delta ^{jk}-D \sigma ^j \delta ^{ik}-3 \sigma ^i \delta ^{jk}+3 \sigma ^j \delta ^{ik}+\sigma ^k \delta ^{ij}
// FCE // StandardForm
ex
(*I CLCD[i, j, k] + CSID[k] KDD[i, j] + 3 CSID[j] KDD[i, k] - D CSID[j] KDD[i, k] - 3 CSID[i] KDD[j, k] + D CSID[i] KDD[j, k]*)
["None"]; FCSetPauliSigmaScheme