Can Dirac quantization of constrained systems be fulfilled within the intrinsic geometry?

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2013.11.017MaRDI QIDQ530435zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Da-Mao Xun, Quan-hui Liu

Publication date 1 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0909

zbMATH Keywords

constrained systemsquantum fields in curved spacetimecanonical quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

Abstract: For particles constrained on a curved surface, how to perform quantization within Dirac's canonical quantization scheme is a long-standing problem. On one hand, Dirac stressed that the Cartesian coordinate system has fundamental importance in passing from the classical Hamiltonian to its quantum mechanical form while preserving the classical algebraic structure between positions, momenta and Hamiltonian to the extent possible. On the other, on the curved surface, we have no exact Cartesian coordinate system within intrinsic geometry. These two facts imply that the three-dimensional Euclidean space in which the curved surface is embedded must be invoked otherwise no proper canonical quantization is attainable. Since the minimum surfaces, catenoid and helicoid studied in this paper, have vanishing mean curvature, we explore whether the intrinsic geometry offers a proper framework in which the quantum theory can be established in a self-consistent way. Results show that it does for quantum motions on catenoid and it does not for that on helicoid, but neither is compatible with Schr"odinger theory. In contrast, in three-dimensional Euclidean space, the geometric momentum and potential are then in agreement with those given by the Schr"odinger theory.

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