Remark on a group-theoretical formalism for quantum mechanics and the quantum-to-Classical transition

DOI10.1007/S10701-007-9130-ZMaRDI QIDQ2643677zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. K. Korbicz, M. Lewenstein

Publication date 27 August 2007

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603082

zbMATH Keywords

clasical limitsHeisenberg-Weyl groupquantum-to-classical mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Continuum limits in quantum field theory (81T27)

Abstract: We sketch a group-theoretical framework, based on the Heisenberg-Weyl group, encompassing both quantum and classical statistical descriptions of mechanical systems. We re-define in group-theoretical terms the kinematical arena and the state-space of the system, achieving a unified quantum-classical language and a novel version of the correspondence principle. We briefly discuss the structure of observables and dynamics within our framework.

Review text

Guided by the observation that the statistical description of the classical mechanical systems is given in terms of the probability measures on their phase spaces and that one of their quantum counterparts is encoded into density matrices acting in the Hilbert spaces the authors take the problem how to connect these two formalisms via some explicit quantum-to-classical transition. The claim is that such mechanism is realised by replacing the probability measures and density matrices with their (genereralized) Fourier transforms and characteristic functions. Two examples based on Heisenberg-Weyl group and comments about the the possible extensions to other kinematical groups are given.

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