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Quantization with Action-Angle Coherent States

Quantum Physics 2015-06-03 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

For a single degree of freedom confined mechanical system with given energy, we know that the motion is always periodic and action-angle variables are convenient choice as conjugate phase-space variables. We construct action-angle coherent states in view to provide a quantization scheme that yields precisely a given observed energy spectrum En{E_n} for such a system. This construction is based on a Bayesian approach: each family corresponds to a choice of probability distributions such that the classical energy averaged with respect to this probability distribution is precisely EnE_n up to a constant shift. The formalism is viewed as a natural extension of the Bohr-Sommerfeld rule and an alternative to the canonical quantization. In particular, it also yields a satisfactory angle operator as a bounded self-adjoint operator.

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@article{arxiv.1110.6678,
  title  = {Quantization with Action-Angle Coherent States},
  author = {J. -P. Gazeau and R. Kanamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6678},
  year   = {2015}
}
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