Duality and the geometry of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/14/311zbMATH Open1045.81504arXivhep-th/0110151OpenAlexW1987213493MaRDI QIDQ4465633FDOQ4465633

J. M. Isidro

Publication date: 9 June 2004

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A recent notion in theoretical physics is that not all quantum theories arise from quantising a classical system. Also, a given quantum model may possess more than just one classical limit. These facts find strong evidence in string duality and M-theory, and it has been suggested that they should also have a counterpart in quantum mechanics. In view of these developments we propose "dequantisation", a mechanism to render a quantum theory classical. Specifically, we present a geometric procedure to "dequantise" a given quantum mechanics (regardless of its classical origin, if any) to possibly different classical limits, whose quantisation gives back the original quantum theory. The standard classical limit $hbaro0$ arises as a particular case of our approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0110151

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30)

Cited In (3)

• Duality and the equivalence principle of quantum mechanics
• Contact Hamiltonian mechanics
• TIME AND M-THEORY

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