Non-abelian Weyl commutation relations and the series product of quantum stochastic evolutions

Abstract

We show that the series product, which serves as an algebraic rule for connecting state-based input–output systems, is intimately related to the Heisenberg group and the canonical commutation relations. The series product for quantum stochastic models then corresponds to a non-abelian generalization of the Weyl commutation relation. We show that the series product gives the general rule for combining the generators of quantum stochastic evolutions using a Lie–Trotter product formula.