Features of Moyal trajectories

DOI10.1063/1.2409495MaRDI QIDQ3442159zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nuno Dias, João Nuno Prata

Publication date 16 May 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604167

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Noncommutative geometry in quantum theory (81R60)

Abstract: We study the Moyal evolution of the canonical position and momentum variables. We compare it with the classical evolution and show that, contrary to what is commonly found in the literature, the two dynamics do not coincide. We prove that this divergence is quite general by studying Hamiltonians of the form $p^2/2m+V(q)$. Several alternative formulations of Moyal dynamics are then suggested. We introduce the concept of starfunction and use it to reformulate the Moyal equations in terms of a system of ordinary differential equations on the noncommutative Moyal plane. We then use this formulation to study the semiclassical expansion of Moyal trajectories, which is cast in terms of a (order by order in $hbar$) recursive hierarchy of i) first order partial differential equations as well as ii) systems of first order ordinary differential equations. The latter formulation is derived independently for analytic Hamiltonians as well as for the more general case of smooth local integrable ones. We present various examples illustrating these results.

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