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Symplectic areas, quantization, and dynamics in electromagnetic fields

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v1

Abstract

A gauge invariant quantization in a closed integral form is developed over a linear phase space endowed with an inhomogeneous Faraday electromagnetic tensor. An analog of the Groenewold product formula (corresponding to Weyl ordering) is obtained via a membrane magnetic area, and extended to the product of N symbols. The problem of ordering in quantization is related to different configurations of membranes: a choice of configuration determines a phase factor that fixes the ordering and controls a symplectic groupoid structure on the secondary phase space. A gauge invariant solution of the quantum evolution problem for a charged particle in an electromagnetic field is represented in an exact continual form and in the semiclassical approximation via the area of dynamical membranes.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0002041,
  title  = {Symplectic areas, quantization, and dynamics in electromagnetic fields},
  author = {M. V. Karasev and T. A. Osborn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0002041},
  year   = {2009}
}

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39 pages, 17 figures