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Symplectic geometry of quantum noise

Symplectic Geometry 2016-05-11 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We discuss a quantum counterpart, in the sense of the Berezin-Toeplitz quantization, of certain constraints on Poisson brackets coming from "hard" symplectic geometry. It turns out that they can be interpreted in terms of the quantum noise of observables and their joint measurements in operational quantum mechanics. Our findings include various geometric mechanisms of quantum noise production and a noise-localization uncertainty relation. The methods involve Floer theory and Poisson bracket invariants originated in function theory on symplectic manifolds.

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@article{arxiv.1206.3707,
  title  = {Symplectic geometry of quantum noise},
  author = {Leonid Polterovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.3707},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Revised version, 57 pages, 3 figures. Incorporates arXiv:1203.2348