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Quantum mechanics as kinetics

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v3

Abstract

Relations between Hamiltonian mechanics and quantum mechanics are studied. It is stressed that classical mechanics possesses all the specific features of quantum theory: operators, complex variables, probabilities (in case of ergodic systems). The Planck constant and the Fock space appear after putting a dynamical system in a thermal bath. For harmonic oscillator in a thermal bath, the probability amplitudes can be identified with the complex valued phase functions f(q+ip)f(q+ip) describing small deviations from the equilibrium state, when the time of relaxation is large. A chain of such oscillators models both the one-dimensional space (or string), and one-dimensional quantum field theory.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0406079,
  title  = {Quantum mechanics as kinetics},
  author = {L. V. Prokhorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0406079},
  year   = {2007}
}

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minor changes, 9 pages