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Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on Lie groups

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on a compact simple Lie group GG is developed in detail. Several New features are shown to arise which have no counterparts in the familiar Cartesian case. Notable among these is the notion of a `semiquantised phase space', a structure on which the Weyl symbols of operators turn out to be naturally defined and, figuratively speaking, located midway between the classical phase space TGT^*G and the Hilbert space of square integrable functions on GG. General expressions for the star product for Weyl symbols are presented and explicitly worked out for the angle-angular momentum case.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0407257,
  title  = {Wigner-Weyl isomorphism for quantum mechanics on Lie groups},
  author = {N. Mukunda and G. Marmo and Alessandro Zampini and S. Chaturvedi and R. Simon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0407257},
  year   = {2009}
}

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32 pages, Latex2e

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