Dynamics as shadow of phase space geometry

DOI10.1006/APHY.1996.5631MaRDI QIDQ1269401zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. R. Klauder, P. Maraner

Publication date 21 April 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609004

zbMATH Keywords

adiabatic motion of charged particle in curved background under influence of magnetic fieldphase space metric structurequantization of Hamiltonian system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99)

Abstract: Starting with the generally well accepted opinion that quantizing an arbitrary Hamiltonian system involves picking out some additional structure on the classical phase space (the {sl shadow} of quantum mechanics in the classical theory), we describe classical as well as quantum dynamics as a purely geometrical effect by introducing a {sl phase space metric structure}. This produces an $calO(hbar)$ modification of the classical equations of motion reducing at the same time the quantization of an arbitrary Hamiltonian system to standard procedures. Our analysis is carried out in analogy with the adiabatic motion of a charged particle in a curved background (the additional metric structure) under the influence of a universal magnetic field (the classical symplectic structure). This allows one to picture dynamics in an unusual way, and reveals a dynamical mechanism that produces the selection of the right set of physical quantum states.

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