TWO COUPLED HARMONIC OSCILLATORS ON NONCOMMUTATIVE PLANE
We investigate a system of two coupled harmonic oscillators on the noncommutative plane [Formula: see text] by requiring that the spatial coordinates do not commute. We show that the system can be diagonalized by a suitable transformation, i.e. a rotation with a mixing angle α. The obtained eigenstates as well as the eigenvalues depend on the noncommutativity parameter θ. Focusing on the ground state wave function before the transformation, we calculate the density matrix ρ0(θ) and find that its traces Tr (ρ0(θ)) and [Formula: see text] are not affected by the noncommutativity. Evaluating the Wigner function on [Formula: see text] confirms this. The uncertainty relation is explicitly determined and found to depend on θ. For small values of θ, the relation is shifted by a θ2 term, which can be interpreted as a noncommutativity correction. The calculated entropy does not change with respect to the normal case. We consider the limits α = 0 and α = π/2. In the first case, by identifying θ to the squared magnetic length, one can recover basic features of the Hall system.