From quantum hydrodynamics to Koopman wavefunctions. I

DOI10.1007/978-3-030-80209-7_34MaRDI QIDQ2117863zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors François Gay-Balmaz, Cesare Tronci

Publication date 22 March 2022

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13185

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian dynamicsKoopman phase space wavefunctionLiouville densityMadelung transformmomentum mapprequantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H99) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

Abstract: Based on Koopman's theory of classical wavefunctions in phase space, we present the Koopman-van Hove (KvH) formulation of classical mechanics as well as some of its properties. In particular, we show how the associated classical Liouville density arises as a momentum map associated to the unitary action of strict contact transformations on classical wavefunctions. Upon applying the Madelung transform from quantum hydrodynamics in the new context, we show how the Koopman wavefunction picture is insufficient to reproduce arbitrary classical distributions. However, this problem is entirely overcome by resorting to von Neumann operators. Indeed, we show that the latter also allow for singular $delta-$like profiles of the Liouville density, thereby reproducing point particles in phase space.

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