Formal similarity between mathematical structures of electrodynamics and quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/S10773-010-0589-6MaRDI QIDQ2429947zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. A. Deriglazov

Publication date 5 April 2011

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.3984

zbMATH Keywords

electrodynamicsSchrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

Abstract: Electromagnetic phenomena can be described by Maxwell equations written for the vectors of electric and magnetic field. Equivalently, electrodynamics can be reformulated in terms of an electromagnetic vector potential. We demonstrate that the Schr"odinger equation admits an analogous treatment. We present a Lagrangian theory of a real scalar field $phi$ whose equation of motion turns out to be equivalent to the Schr"odinger equation with time independent potential. After introduction the field into the formalism, its mathematical structure becomes analogous to those of electrodynamics. The field $phi$ is in the same relation to the real and imaginary part of a wave function as the vector potential is in respect to electric and magnetic fields. Preservation of quantum-mechanics probability is just an energy conservation law of the field $phi$.

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