The physical origin of Schrödinger equation

DOI10.1088/1361-6404/ABF6A0zbMath1527.81053arXiv2106.01312OpenAlexW3172710579MaRDI QIDQ6108025

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Publication date: 29 June 2023

Published in: European Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum mechanics is one of the basic theories of modern physics. Here, the famous Schr"odinger equation and the differential operators representing mechanical quantities in quantum mechanics are derived, just based on the principle that the translation invariance (symmetry) of a system in Hamiltonian mechanics should be preserved in quantum mechanics. Moreover, according to the form of the differential operators, the commutation relation in quantum mechanics between the generalized coordinate and the generalized momentum can be directly obtained. We believe that the results in this paper are very useful for understanding the physical origin of quantum mechanics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.01312

zbMATH Keywords

Schrödinger equationdifferential operatorcommutation relationtranslation symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Rings of differential operators (associative algebraic aspects) (16S32) Translation planes and spreads in linear incidence geometry (51A40)

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