Multicomponent Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation on arbitrary symplectic manifolds: A star product approach

DOI10.1063/1.532450MaRDI QIDQ4701600zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Emmrich, H. Römer

Publication date 21 November 1999

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9701111

zbMATH Keywords

quantizationWKB approximationstar productBorn-Oppenheimer approximationWKB ansatzadditional phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Deformation quantization, star products (53D55) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

Abstract: It is known that in the WKB approximation of multicomponent systems like Dirac equation or Born-Oppenheimer approximation, an additional phase appears apart from the Berry phase. So far, this phase was only examined in special cases, or under certain restrictive assumptions, namely that the eigenspaces of the matrix or endomorphism valued symbol of the Hamiltonian form trivial bundles. We give a completely global derivation of this phase which does not depend on any choice of local trivializing sections. This is achieved using a star product approach to quantization. Furthermore, we give a systematic and global approach to a reduction of the problem to a problem defined completely on the different ``polarizations. Finally, we discuss to what extent it is actually possible to reduce the problem to a really scalar one, and make some comments on obstructions to the existence of global quasiclassical states.

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