A discrete time presentation of quantum dynamics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/2/304MaRDI QIDQ4796899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ghanashyam Date

Publication date 21 July 2003

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210056

zbMATH Keywords

discrete timequantum dynamicsloop quantum cosmologyHamiltonian constraint

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Inspired by the discrete evolution implied by the recent work on loop quantum cosmology, we obtain a discrete time description of usual quantum mechanics viewing it as a constrained system. This description, obtained without any approximation or explicit discretization, mimics features of the discrete time evolution of loop quantum cosmology. We discuss the continuum limit, physical inner product and matrix elements of physical observables to bring out various issues regarding viability of a discrete evolution. We also point out how a continuous time could emerge without appealing to any continuum limit.

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