Born-Jordan quantization and the equivalence of the Schrödinger and Heisenberg pictures
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Publication:474896
DOI10.1007/S10701-014-9831-ZzbMATH Open1302.81115arXiv1405.2519OpenAlexW2148852886WikidataQ41176084 ScholiaQ41176084MaRDI QIDQ474896FDOQ474896
Authors: Maurice de Gosson 
Publication date: 25 November 2014
Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The aim of the famous Born and Jordan 1925 paper was to put Heisenberg's matrix mechanics on a firm mathematical basis. Born and Jordan showed that if one wants to ensure energy conservation in Heisenberg's theory it is necessary and sufficient to quantize observables following a certain ordering rule. One apparently unnoticed consequence of this fact is that Schr"odinger's wave mechanics cannot be equivalent to Heisenberg's more physically motivated matrix mechanics unless its observables are quantized using this rule, and not the more symmetric prescription proposed by Weyl in 1926, which has become the standard procedure in quantum mechanics. This observation confirms the superiority of Born-Jordan quantization, as already suggested by Kauffmann. We also show how to explicitly determine the Born--Jordan quantization of arbitrary classical variables, and discuss the conceptual advantages in using this quantization scheme. We finally suggest that it might be possible to determine the correct quantization scheme by using the results of weak measurement experiments.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.2519
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