On infinite walls in deformation quantization

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2004.12.004zbMATH Open1091.81053arXivquant-ph/0412007OpenAlexW3103341065MaRDI QIDQ2484471FDOQ2484471

Mark A. Walton, Sergei V. Kryukov

Publication date: 1 August 2005

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

Abstract: We examine the deformation quantization of a single particle moving in one dimension (i) in the presence of an infinite potential wall, (ii) confined by an infinite square well, and (iii) bound by a delta function potential energy. In deformation quantization, considered as an autonomous formulation of quantum mechanics, the Wigner function of stationary states must be found by solving the so-called $*$-genvalue (``stargenvalue) equation for the Hamiltonian. For the cases considered here, this pseudo-differential equation is difficult to solve directly, without an ad hoc modification of the potential. Here we treat the infinite wall as the limit of a solvable exponential potential. Before the limit is taken, the corresponding $*$-genvalue equation involves the Wigner function at momenta translated by imaginary amounts. We show that it can be converted to a partial differential equation, however, with a well-defined limit. We demonstrate that the Wigner functions calculated from the standard Schr"odinger wave functions satisfy the resulting new equation. Finally, we show how our results may be adapted to allow for the presence of another, non-singular part in the potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412007

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zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functionDeformation quantizationInfinite potential wall

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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