Pointillisme à la Signac and construction of a quantum fiber bundle over convex bodies

DOI10.1007/S10701-023-00681-2MaRDI QIDQ6170715zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Maurice de Gosson, Charlyne de Gosson

Publication date 13 July 2023

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00470

zbMATH Keywords

Gaussian wavepacketsLagrangian framepolar dualityquantum fiber bundlesymplectic groupWigner transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Holomorphic symplectic varieties, hyper-Kähler varieties (14J42) Linear transformations, semilinear transformations (15A04) Special classes of univalent and multivalent functions of one complex variable (starlike, convex, bounded rotation, etc.) (30C45) Complex vector fields, holomorphic foliations, (mathbb{C})-actions (32M25) Sectioning fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55S40) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Special bases (entangled, mutual unbiased, etc.) (81P55) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We use the notion of polar duality from convex geometry and the theory of Lagrangian planes from symplectic geometry to construct a fiber bundle over ellipsoids that can be viewed as a quantum-mechanical substitute for the classical symplectic phase space. The total space of this fiber bundle consists of geometric quantum states, products of convex bodies carried by Lagrangian planes by their polar duals with respect to a second transversal Lagrangian plane.. Using the theory of the John ellipsoid we relate these geometric quantum states to the notion of "quantum blobs" introduced in previous work; quantum blobs are the smallest symplectic invariant regions of the phase space compatible with the uncertainty principle. We show that the set of equivalence classes of unitarily related geometric quantum states is in a one-to-one correspondence with the set of all Gaussian wavepackets.

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