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Quantum trajectories

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-11 v2 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach to phase space trajectories in quantum mechanics. A Moyal description of quantum theory is used, where observables and states are treated as classical functions on a classical phase space. A quantum trajectory being an appropriate solution to quantum Hamiltonian equations is also a function defined on a classical phase space. The difference, when compare with classical theory, is in a deformation of a classical action of a flow on observables and states to an appropriate quantum action. This leads also to deformation of a multiplication rule for any quantum trajectory treated as a one-parameter group of diffeomorphisms. Moreover, several examples are given, presenting the developed formalism for particular quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.1208.0720,
  title  = {Quantum trajectories},
  author = {Maciej Blaszak and Ziemowit Domanski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0720},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, to appear in Phys. Lett. A

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