The role of phase space geometry in Heisenberg's uncertainty relation.

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00145-3zbMATH Open1044.81080arXivquant-ph/0304049WikidataQ125923042 ScholiaQ125923042MaRDI QIDQ1415331FDOQ1415331

Charis Anastopoulos, Ntina Savvidou

Publication date: 3 December 2003

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

Abstract: Aiming towards a geometric description of quantum theory, we study the coherent states-induced metric on the phase space, which provides a geometric formulation of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations (both the position-momentum and the time-energy ones). The metric also distinguishes the original uncertainty relations of Heisenberg from the ones that are obtained from non-commutativity of operators. Conversely, the uncertainty relations can be written in terms of this metric only, hence they can be formulated for any physical system, including ones with non-trivial phase space. Moreover, the metric is a key ingredient of the probability structure of continuous-time histories on phase space. This fact allows a simple new proof the impossibility of the physical manifestation of the quantum Zeno and anti-Zeno paradoxes. Finally, we construct the coherent states for a spinless relativistic particle, as a non-trivial example by which we demonstrate our results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0304049

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zbMATH Keywords

Coherent statesZeno effectcontinuous-time historiesHistoriesUncertainty relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) 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)

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