Towards the quantum geometry of saturated quantum uncertainty relations: the case of the (Q, P) Heisenberg observables

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-97175-9_11MaRDI QIDQ2002207zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan Govaerts

Publication date 11 July 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.10491

zbMATH Keywords

coherent statesquantum geometryquantum Riemannian geometryquantum symplectic geometrysqueezed statesuncertainty relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric quantization (53D50) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10) Coherent states (81R30) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: This contribution to the present Workshop Proceedings outlines a general programme for identifying geometric structures--out of which to possibly recover quantum dynamics as well--associated to the manifold in Hilbert space of the quantum states that saturate the Schr"odinger-Robertson uncertainty relation associated to a specific set of quantum observables which characterise a given quantum system and its dynamics. The first step in such an exploration is addressed herein in the case of the observables Q and P of the Heisenberg algebra for a single degree of freedom system. The corresponding saturating states are the well known general squeezed states, whose properties are reviewed and discussed in detail together with some original results, in preparation of a study deferred to a separated analysis of their quantum geometry and of the corresponding path integral representation over such states.

Review text

The Heisenberg's uncertainty relations limit the precision of measurements of canonically conjugate coordinates, position and momentum, of any quantum system. More generallly, for any pair of hermitian observables \(A\) and \(B\), the uncertainty relations are known as Schrödinger-Robertson (SR) \[ (\Delta A)^2 (\Delta B)^2\geq \frac 14 \left \langle (-i)[A,B]\right \rangle ^2+\frac 14\left \langle \{A-\left \langle A\right \rangle , B-\left \langle B\right \rangle \}\right \rangle ^2, \] where \(\left \langle A\right \rangle\) denotes the normalized expectation value and \(\{A, B\}=AB+BA\), for any quantum operators \(A\), \(B\). It is assumed that a quantum system characterized by observables \(A\), \(B\), displays classical behaviour when the inequality SR becomes an equality (i.e. it is saturated). The set of quantum observables saturating SR is a differentiable submanifold of the Hilbert space, from which the full Hilbert space of the quantum system can be a priori reconstructed. This submanifold can be endowed naturally with a symplectic structure and a Riemannian metric. It is possible that the quantum system may be reconstructed from these geometric structures. This approach is in connection with Klauder's programme of ``Enhanced Quantization. In order to develop this project of research, in this article observables forming a Heisenberg algebra for a one dimensional quantum system are considered, and the quantum states saturating SR are constructed. It is found that such states can be considered coherent squeezed states. These states are analyzed in detail. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1411.00032].

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