Phase operator problem and macroscopic extension of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1006/APHY.1997.5685zbMATH Open0921.03059arXivquant-ph/9705034OpenAlexW1998804495MaRDI QIDQ1290411FDOQ1290411

Authors: Masanao Ozawa 

Publication date: 21 September 1999

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

Abstract: To find the Hermitian phase operatorof a single-mode electromagnetic field in quantum mechanics, the Schroedinger representation is extended to a larger Hilbert space augmented by states with infinite excitation by nonstandard analysis. The Hermitian phase operator is shown to exist on the extended Hilbert space. This operator is naturally considered as the controversial limit of the approximate phase operators on finite dimensional spaces proposed by Pegg and Barnett. The spectral measure of this operator is a Naimark extension of the optimal probability operator-valued measure for the phase parameter found by Helstrom. Eventually, the two promising approaches to the statistics of the phase in quantum mechanics is unified by means of the Hermitian phase operator in the macroscopic extension of the Schroedinger representation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9705034

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationquantum harmonic oscillatorquantum statenonstandard hullphase operatorhyperfinite dimensional vector spacenonstandard Hilbert space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Nonstandard functional analysis (46S20) Other applications of nonstandard models (economics, physics, etc.) (03H10)

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