THE QUANTUM-CLASSICAL TRANSITION: THE FATE OF THE COMPLEX STRUCTURE

DOI10.1142/S0219887805000508zbMATH Open1081.81069arXivhep-th/0501094MaRDI QIDQ4674098FDOQ4674098

Authors: G. Solarici, A. Simoni, Giuseppe Marmo, F. Ventriglia 

Publication date: 9 May 2005

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

Abstract: According to Dirac, fundamental laws of Classical Mechanics should be recovered by means of an "appropriate limit" of Quantum Mechanics. In the same spirit it is reasonable to enquire about the fundamental geometric structures of Classical Mechanics which will survive the appropriate limit of Quantum Mechanics. This is the case for the symplectic structure. On the contrary, such geometric structures as the metric tensor and the complex structure, which are necessary for the formulation of the Quantum theory, may not survive the Classical limit, being not relevant in the Classical theory. Here we discuss the Classical limit of those geometric structures mainly in the Ehrenfest and Heisenberg pictures, i.e. at the level of observables rather than at the level of states. A brief discussion of the fate of the complex structure in the Quantum-Classical transition in the Schroedinger picture is also mentioned.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501094

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zbMATH Keywords

operator algebrageometric structuresQuantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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