Classical dynamics as constrained quantum dynamics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/6/312MaRDI QIDQ4466162zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. J. Rowe, S. D. Bartlett

Publication date 9 June 2004

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208168

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Coherent states (81R30)

Abstract: We show that the classical mechanics of an algebraic model are implied by its quantizations. An algebraic model is defined, and the corresponding classical and quantum realizations are given in terms of a spectrum generating algebra. Classical equations of motion are then obtained by constraining the quantal dynamics of an algebraic model to an appropriate coherent state manifold. For the cases where the coherent state manifold is not symplectic, it is shown that there exist natural projections onto classical phase spaces. These results are illustrated with the extended example of an asymmetric top.

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