From a Mechanical Lagrangian to the Schrödinger Equation: A Modified Version of the Quantum Newton Law

DOI10.1142/S0217751X03015076zbMATH Open1086.81034arXivquant-ph/0210193MaRDI QIDQ4451803FDOQ4451803

A. Bouda

Publication date: 1 March 2004

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

Abstract: In the one-dimensional stationary case, we construct a mechanical Lagrangian describing the quantum motion of a non-relativistic spinless system. This Lagrangian is written as a difference between a function $T$, which represents the quantum generalization of the kinetic energy and which depends on the coordinate $x$ and the temporal derivatives of $x$ up the third order, and the classical potential $V(x)$. The Hamiltonian is then constructed and the corresponding canonical equations are deduced. The function $T$ is first assumed arbitrary. The development of $T$ in a power series together with the dimensional analysis allow us to fix univocally the series coefficients by requiring that the well-known quantum stationary Hamilton-Jacobi equation be reproduced. As a consequence of this approach, we formulate the law of the quantum motion representing a new version of the quantum Newton's law. We also analytically establish the famous Bohm's relation % $mudotx=partial{S}_0/partialx$ % outside of the framework of the hydrodynamical approach and show that the well-known quantum potential, although it is a part of the kinetic term, it plays really a role of an additional potential as assumed by Bohm.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210193

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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