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In the Dirac bracket approach to dynamical systems with second class constraints observables are represented by elements of a quotient Dirac bracket algebra. We describe families of new realizations of this algebra through quotients of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Bratchikov

The necessary and sufficient conditions are established for the second-class constraint surface to be (an almost) K\"ahler manifold. The deformation quantisation for such systems is scetched resulting in the Wick-type symbols for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

In this paper a generalization of Weyl quantization which maps a dynamical operator in a function space to a dynamical superoperator in an operator space is suggested. Quantization of dynamical operator, which cannot be represented as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vasily E. Tarasov

The Weyl-Wigner formalism for evaluating the intrinsic information of Dirac bispinors as correlated qubits (localized) in a magnetic field is investigated in the extension to statistical ensembles. The confining external field quantizes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 C. F. Silva , A. E. Bernardini

We address the phase space formulation of a noncommutative extension of quantum mechanics in arbitrary dimension, displaying both spatial and momentum noncommutativity. By resorting to a covariant generalization of the Weyl-Wigner transform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

A description of scalar charged particles, based on the Feshbach-Villars formalism, is proposed. Particles are described by an object that is a Wigner function in usual coordinates and momenta and a density matrix in the charge variable. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. I. Lev , A. A. Semenov , C. V. Usenko

Classical mechanics is formulated in complex Hilbert space with the introduction of a commutative product of operators, an antisymmetric bracket, and a quasidensity operator. These are analogues of the star product, the Moyal bracket, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 A. J. Bracken

We derive a product rule for gauge invariant Weyl symbols which provides a generalization of the well-known Moyal formula to the case of non-vanishing electromagnetic fields. Applying our result to the guiding center problem we expand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael Mueller

A new framework for deriving equations of motion for constrained quantum systems is introduced, and a procedure for its implementation is outlined. In special cases the framework reduces to a quantum analogue of the Dirac theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-13 Dorje C. Brody , Anna C. T. Gustavsson , Lane P. Hughston

In this paper, using the Weyl-Wigner-Moyal formalism for quantum mechanics, we develop a {\it quantum-deformed} exterior calculus on the phase-space of an arbitrary hamiltonian system. Introducing additional bosonic and fermionic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 E. Gozzi , M. Reuter

The Moyal--Weyl description of quantum mechanics provides a comprehensive phase space representation of dynamics. The Weyl symbol image of the Heisenberg picture evolution operator is regular in $\hbar$. Its semiclassical expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 T. A. Osborn , F. H. Molzahn

For quantum observables $H$ truncated on the range of orthogonal projections $\Pi_N$ of rank $N$, we study the corresponding Weyl symbol in the phase space in the semiclassical limit of vanishing Planck constant $\hbar\to0$ and large…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-19 Fabio Deelan Cunden , Marilena Ligabò , Maria Caterina Susca

We investigate the one-dimensional Coulomb potential with application to a class of quasirelativistic systems, so-called Dirac-Weyl materials, described by matrix Hamiltonians. We obtain the exact solution of the shifted and truncated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

A new and computationally viable full quantum version of line shape theory is obtained in terms of a mixed Weyl symbol calculus. The basic ingredient in the collision--broadened line shape theory is the time dependent dipole autocorrelation…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. A. Osborn , M. F. Kondrat'eva , G. C. Tabisz , B. R. McQuarrie

A short survey of some material related to conformal general relativity (CGR), integrable Weyl geometry, and Dirac-Weyl (DW) theory is given which suggests that CGR is essentially equivalent to DW with quantum mass equivalent to conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-03 Robert Carroll

In this paper, we present a detailed review/analysis of the Dirac quantisation of Hamiltonian systems with constraints. To this end, we use, as a guide, the physical example provided by the dynamics of a solid ball rolling, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 M. F. Araujo de Resende , Thales Machado F

It is shown that quantum mechanics on noncommutative spaces (NQM) can be obtained by the canonical quantization of some underlying second class constrained system formulated in extended configuration space. It leads, in particular, to an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Deriglazov

We develop a geometric framework for Weyl quantization on pseudo-Riemannian manifolds, in which pseudodifferential operators act on sections of vector bundles equipped with arbitrary connections. We construct the associated star product and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Lars Andersson , Benjamin Moser , Marius A. Oancea , Claudio F. Paganini , Gabriel Schmid

In Moyal's formulation of quantum mechanics, a quantum spin s is described in terms of continuous symbols, i.e. by smooth functions on a two-dimensional sphere. Such prescriptions to associate operators with Wigner functions, P- or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Stephan Heiss , Stefan Weigert

Generalised Wigner and Weyl transformations of quantum operators are defined and their properties, as well as those of the algebraic structure induced on the phase-space are studied. Using such transformations, quantum linear evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Constantinos Tzanakis , Alkis P. Grecos