FIBRE BUNDLE FORMULATION OF NONRELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MECHANICS IV: MIXED STATES AND EVOLUTION TRANSPORT'S CURVATURE

DOI10.1142/S0217751X02005669zbMATH Open1020.81020arXivquant-ph/9901039OpenAlexW3124566761WikidataQ130099437 ScholiaQ130099437MaRDI QIDQ4331035FDOQ4331035

Bozhidar Z. Iliev

Publication date: 16 June 2002

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a new systematic fibre bundle formulation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The new form of the theory is equivalent to the usual one but it is in harmony with the modern trends in theoretical physics and potentially admits new generalizations in different directions. In it a pure state of some quantum system is described by a state section (along paths) of a (Hilbert) fibre bundle. It's evolution is determined through the bundle (analogue of the) Schr"odinger equation. Now the dynamical variables and the density operator are described via bundle morphisms (along paths). The mentioned quantities are connected by a number of relations derived in this work. The present fourth part of this series is devoted mainly to the fibre bundle description of mixed quantum states. We show that to the conventional density operator there corresponds a unique density morphism (along paths) for which the corresponding equations of motion are derived. It is also investigated the bundle description of mixed quantum states in the different pictures of motion. We calculate the curvature of the evolution transport and prove that it is curvature free iff the values of the Hamiltonian operator at different moments commute.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9901039

zbMATH Keywords

mixed quantum statespictures of motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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