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Quantum Transformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that the stationary quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation of non-relativistic 1D systems, underlying Bohmian mechanics, takes the classical form with q\partial_q replaced by q^\partial_{\hat q} where dq^=dq1β2d\hat q={dq\over \sqrt{1-\beta^2}}. The β2\beta^2 term essentially coincides with the quantum potential that, like VEV-E, turns out to be proportional to a curvature arising in projective geometry. In agreement with the recently formulated equivalence principle, these ``quantum transformations'' indicate that the classical and quantum potentials deform space geometry.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9801033,
  title  = {Quantum Transformations},
  author = {Alon E. Faraggi and Marco Matone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9801033},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

19 pages, LaTeX. Extended version to be published in Phys. Lett. A