Action quantization, energy quantization, and time parametrization

DOI10.1007/S10701-017-0067-6MaRDI QIDQ1709150zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edward R. Floyd

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.00291

zbMATH Keywords

loss of informationquantum trajectorymicrostatesquantum Hamilton-Jacobi equationtime parametrization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: The additional information within a Hamilton-Jacobi representation of quantum mechanics is extra, in general, to the Schr"odinger representation. This additional information specifies the microstate of $psi$ that is incorporated into the quantum reduced action, $W$. Non-physical solutions of the quantum stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation for energies that are not Hamiltonian eigenvalues are examined to establish Lipschitz continuity of the quantum reduced action and conjugate momentum. Milne quantization renders the eigenvalue $J$. Eigenvalues $J$ and $E$ mutually imply each other. Jacobi's theorem generates a microstate-dependent time parametrization $t-au=partia{l}_{E}W$ even where energy, $E$, and action variable, $J$, are quantized eigenvalues. Substantiating examples are examined in a Hamilton-Jacobi representation including the linear harmonic oscillator numerically and the square well in closed form. Two byproducts are developed. First, the monotonic behavior of $W$ is shown to ease numerical and analytic computations. Second, a Hamilton-Jacobi representation, quantum trajectories, is shown to develop the standard energy quantization formulas of wave mechanics..

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