nLab A. P. Balachandran

Aiyalam Parameswaran Balachandran is an Indian-American theoretical physicist, retired from the Syracuse University.

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Selected writings

Early discussion of abelian Chern-Simons theory as an effective field theory for the fractional quantum Hall effect:

• A. P. Balachandran, A. M. Srivastava: Chern-Simons Dynamics and the Quantum Hall Effect [arXiv:hep-th/9111006, spire:319826]

On the spin-statistics theorem for non-relativistic particles via the topology of their configuration spaces of points:

• Aiyalam P. Balachandran, A. Daughton, Z. C. Gu, Giuseppe Marmo, Rafael D. Sorkin Spin statistics theorems without relativity or field theory, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 8 (1993) 2993-3044 [doi:10.1142/S0217751X93001223]

Discussion of density matrices, quantum entanglement and entropy in quantum probability/algebraic quantum theory, via the GNS construction:

• A. P. Balachandran, T. R. Govindarajan, Amilcar R. de Queiroz, A. F. Reyes-Lega, Section II of: Algebraic approach to entanglement and entropy, Phys. Rev. A 88 (2013) 022301 [arXiv:1301.1300, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.88.022301]

• A. P. Balachandran, A. R. de Queiroz, S. Vaidya, Entropy of Quantum States: Ambiguities, Eur. Phys. J. Plus 128 (2013) 112 [arXiv:1212.1239, doi:10.1140/epjp/i2013-13112-3]

On fiber bundles in physics:

• Aiyalam P. Balachandran, Giuseppe Marmo, Bo-Sture Skagerstam, A. Stern, Gauge Symmetries and Fibre Bundles, Lect. Notes in Physics 188 Springer (1983) [arXiv:1702.08910]

and with emphasis on solitons and Skyrmions:

• Aiyalam P. Balachandran, Giuseppe Marmo, Bo-Sture Skagerstam: Classical Topology and Quantum States, World Scientific (1991) [doi:10.1142/1180]

Related entries

• fiber bundles in physics

• entanglement,

• entropy

• Hopf fibration

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