On the classical support of quantum mechanical wavefunctions

DOI10.1016/0167-2789(85)90100-9MaRDI QIDQ1069197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. William Helton, Michael Tabor

Publication date 1985

Published in Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-2789(85)90100-9

zbMATH Keywords

classical supportflow of Hamiltoniansinvariant measurequantum mechanicswave functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) Dynamics induced by flows and semiflows (37C10) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99)

Review text

The main result of this work is the following theorem: Let a sequence of eigenstates of a Hamiltonian H be localized to a region R in phase space. Then there exists a measure \(\mu\) whose support is in R and which is invariant under the flow of H. The term localization here is in the sense of \textit{A. I. Shnirel'man} [Usp. Mat. Nauk 29, No.6(180), 181-182 (1974; Zbl 0324.58020)]. The proof of the theorem is based on a slight extension of an earlier related theorem given by the first author [Indiana Univ. Math. J. 26, 997-1018 (1977; Zbl 0373.35060)].

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