New application of noncanonical maps in quantum mechanics

One invertible and one unitary operator can be used to reproduce the effect of a q-deformed commutator of annihilation and creation operators. The original annihilation and creation operators are mapped into new operators, not conjugate to each other, whose standard commutator equals the identity plus a correction proportional to the original number operator. The consistency condition for the existence of this new set of operators is derived, by exploiting the Stone theorem on 1-parameter unitary groups. The above scheme leads to modified “equations of motion” which do not preserve the properties of the original first-order set for annihilation and creation operators. Their relation with commutation relations is also studied.