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 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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0406079,
title = {Quantum mechanics as kinetics},
author = {L. V. Prokhorov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0406079},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
minor changes, 9 pages