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Free to Harmonic Unitary Transformations in Quantum and Koopman Dynamics

Quantum Physics 2022-11-23 v2 Classical Physics

Abstract

It has long been known that there exists a coordinate transformation which exactly maps the quantum free particle to the quantum harmonic oscillator. Here we extend this result by reformulating it as a unitary operation followed by a time coordinate transformation. We demonstrate that an equivalent transformation can be performed for classical systems in the context of Koopman von-Neumann (KvN) dynamics. We further extend this mapping to dissipative evolutions in both the quantum and classical cases, and show that this mapping imparts an identical time-dependent scaling on the dissipation parameters for both types of dynamics. The derived classical procedure presents a number of opportunities to import squeezing dependent quantum procedures (such as Hamiltonian amplification) into the classical regime.

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@article{arxiv.2207.09515,
  title  = {Free to Harmonic Unitary Transformations in Quantum and Koopman Dynamics},
  author = {Gerard McCaul and Denys I. Bondar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09515},
  year   = {2022}
}

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5 pages, no figures

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