O(3,3)-like symmetries of coupled harmonic oscillators

DOI10.1063/1.530940MaRDI QIDQ4873254zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 16 April 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9704005

zbMATH Keywords

four-dimensional phase spacegroup of unitary transformationsLorentz group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics (70G10) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: In classical mechanics, the system of two coupled harmonic oscillators is shown to possess the symmetry of the Lorentz group O(3,3) applicable to a six-dimensional space consisting of three space-like and three time-like coordinates, or SL(4,r) in the four-dimensional phase space consisting of two position and two momentum variables. In quantum mechanics, the symmetry is reduced to that of O(3,2) or Sp(4), which is a subgroup of O(3,3) or SL(4,r) respectively. It is shown that among the six Sp(4)-like subgroups, only one possesses the symmetry which can be translated into the group of unitary transformations in quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics, there is the lower bound in the size of phase space for each mode determined by the uncertainty principle while there are no restriction on the phase-space size in classical mechanics. This is the reason why the symmetry is smaller in quantum mechanics.

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