Least uncertainty principle in deformation quantization

DOI10.1063/1.2456311MaRDI QIDQ3442192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Murray Gerstenhaber

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/math/0512624

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Deformation quantization produces families of mathematically equivalent quantization procedures from which one must select the physically meaningful ones. As a selection principle we propose that the procedure must allow enough `observable' energy distributions, i.e., ones for which no pure quantum state will appear with negative probability and must further have the property that for these the uncertainty in the probability distribution of the quantum states must not exceed that of the original distribution. For the simple harmonic oscillator we show that this allows only the classic Groenewold-Moyal (skew-symmetric) form.

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