Quantization of Hamiltonian systems with a position dependent mass: Killing vector fields and Noether momenta approach

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA8E90zbMATH Open1378.81054arXiv1710.02135OpenAlexW2760701987MaRDI QIDQ4597595FDOQ4597595

Authors: J. F. Cariñena, Manuel F. Rañada, Mariano Santander 

Publication date: 13 December 2017

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

Abstract: The quantization of systems with a position dependent mass (PDM) is studied. We present a method that starts with the study of the existence of Killing vector fields for the PDM geodesic motion (Lagrangian with a PDM kinetic term but without any potential) and the construction of the associated Noether momenta. Then the method considers, as the appropriate Hilbert space, the space of functions that are square integrable with respect to a measure related with the PDM and, after that, it establishes the quantization, not of the canonical momenta $p$, but of the Noether momenta $P$ instead. The quantum Hamiltonian, that depends on the Noether momenta, is obtained as an Hermitian operator defined on the PDM Hilbert space. In the second part several systems with position-dependent mass, most of them related with nonlinear oscillators, are quantized by making use of the method proposed in the first part.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02135

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zbMATH Keywords

quantizationposition-dependent massKilling vector fieldsNoether momenta

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Geodesic flows in symplectic geometry and contact geometry (53D25) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

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