Symplectic geometry and spectral properties of classical and quantum coupled angular momenta

TL;DR

This paper explores the symplectic geometry and spectral properties of coupled angular momenta systems, computing invariants for non-toric semitoric cases and linking quantum spectra to classical invariants.

Contribution

It provides the first computation of symplectic invariants for a non-toric semitoric system on a compact manifold and connects quantum spectra to classical symplectic invariants.

Findings

Computed symplectic invariants for a non-toric semitoric system

Quantized the system and analyzed its joint spectrum

Demonstrated how quantum spectra reveal classical invariants

Abstract

We give a detailed study of the symplectic geometry of a family of integrable systems obtained by coupling two angular momenta in a non trivial way. These systems depend on a parameter t $\in$ [0, 1] and exhibit different behaviors according to its value. For a certain range of values, the system is semitoric, and we compute some of its symplectic invariants. Even though these invariants have been known for almost a decade, this is to our knowledge the first example of their computation in the case of a non-toric semitoric system on a compact manifold (the only invariant of toric systems is the image of the momentum map). In the second part of the paper we quantize this system, compute its joint spectrum, and describe how to use this joint spectrum to recover information about the symplectic invariants.