On Hamiltonian formulations of the Schrödinger system

DOI10.1006/APHY.2002.6262zbMATH Open1005.81038arXivhep-th/0301052OpenAlexW2095179974WikidataQ59919441 ScholiaQ59919441MaRDI QIDQ699073FDOQ699073

László Á. Gergely

Publication date: 1 October 2002

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

Abstract: We review and compare different variational formulations for the Schr"{o}dinger field. Some of them rely on the addition of a conveniently chosen total time derivative to the hermitic Lagrangian. Alternatively, the Dirac-Bergmann algorithm yields the Schr"{o}dinger equation first as a consistency condition in the full phase space, second as canonical equation in the reduced phase space. The two methods lead to the same (reduced) Hamiltonian. As a third possibility, the Faddeev-Jackiw method is shown to be a shortcut of the Dirac method. By implementing the quantization scheme for systems with second class constraints, inconsistencies of previous treatments are eliminated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0301052

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zbMATH Keywords

phase spaceFaddeev-Jackiw methodsecond class constraintsreduced phase spaceDirac-Bergmann algorithmdifferent variational formulationshermitic Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational principles of physics (49S05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45)

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