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On relationship between canonical momentum and geometric momentum

Quantum Physics 2016-05-06 v1

Abstract

Decompositing of N+1N+1-dimensional gradient operator in terms of Gaussian normal coordinates (ξ0,ξμ)(\xi^{0},\xi^{\mu}), (μ=1,2,3,...,N\mu=1,2,3,...,N) and making the canonical momentum P0P_{0} along the normal direction n\mathbf{n} to be hermitian, we obtain nP0=i(n0M0)\mathbf{n}P_{0}=-i\hbar\left( \mathbf{n}\partial _{0}-\mathbf{M}_{0}\right) with M0\mathbf{M}_{0} denoting the mean curvature vector on the surface ξ0=const.\xi^{0}=const. The remaining part of the momentum operator lies on the surface, which is identical to the geometric one.

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@article{arxiv.1605.01597,
  title  = {On relationship between canonical momentum and geometric momentum},
  author = {S. F. Xiao and Q. H. Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01597},
  year   = {2016}
}

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