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A quantum system at equilibrium is represented by a corresponding classical system, chosen to reproduce thermodynamic and structural properties. The motivation is to allow application of classical strong coupling theories and molecular…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-14 James Dufty , Sandipan Dutta

Analytical solutions for the time-dependent autocorrelation function of the classical and quantum mechanical spin dimer with arbitrary spin are presented and compared. For large spin quantum numbers or high temperature the classical and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Mentrup , J. Schnack , Marshall Luban

We discuss our understanding of the equivalence principle in both classical mechanics and quantum mechanics. We show that not only does the equivalence principle hold for the trajectories of quantum particles in a background gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip D. Mannheim

A hybrid formalism is proposed for interacting classical and quantum sytems. This formalism is mathematically consistent and reduces to standard classical and quantum mechanics in the case of no interaction. However, in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Asher Peres , Daniel Terno

This study introduces a method for simulating quantum systems using electrical networks. Our approach leverages a generalized similarity transformation, which connects different Hamiltonians, enabling well-defined paths for quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 M. Caruso

The relationship between classical and quantum theory is of central importance to the philosophy of physics, and any interpretation of quantum mechanics has to clarify it. Our discussion of this relationship is partly historical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. P. Landsman

The time-dependence of correlation functions under the influence of classical equations of motion is described by an exact evolution equation. For conservative systems thermodynamic equilibrium is a fixed point of these equations. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Christof Wetterich

Classical systems can be entangled. Entanglement is defined by coincidence correlations. Quantum entanglement experiments can be mimicked by a mechanical system with a single conserved variable and 77.8% conditional efficiency. Experiments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Douglas G. Danforth

In spite of its popularity, it has not been possible to vindicate the conventional wisdom that classical mechanics is a limiting case of quantum mechanics. The purpose of the present paper is to offer an alternative formulation of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-16 Partha Ghose

Where does quantum mechanics part ways with classical mechanics? How does quantum randomness differ fundamentally from classical randomness? We cannot fully explain how the theories differ until we can derive them within a single axiomatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Agung Budiyono , Daniel Rohrlich

Starting from a simple classical framework and employing some stochastic concepts, the basic ingredients of the quantum formalism are recovered. It has been shown that the traditional axiomatic structure of quantum mechanics can be rebuilt,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephan I. Tzenov

Quantum-classical correspondence for the average shape of eigenfunctions and the local spectral density of states are well-known facts. In this paper, the fluctuations that quantum mechanical wave functions present around the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Benet , J. Flores , H. Hernandez-Saldaña , F. M. Izrailev , F. Leyvraz , T. H. Seligman

It is shown that the point charge and magnetic moment of electron produce together such a field that total electromagnetic momentum has a component perpendicular to electron velocity. As a result classical electron models, having magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. N. Melekhin

The relation that exists in quantum mechanics among action variables, angle variables and the phases of quantum states is clarified, by referring to the system of a generalized oscillator. As a by-product, quantum-mechanical meaning of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Omote , S. Sakoda , S. Kamefuchi

Classical statistical particle mechanics in the configuration space can be represented by a nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Even without assuming the existence of deterministic particle trajectories, the resulting quantum-like statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Nikolic

Invoking Maxwell's classical equations in conjunction with expressions for the electromagnetic (EM) energy, momentum, force, and torque, we use a few simple examples to demonstrate the nature of the EM angular momentum. The energy and the…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-09 Masud Mansuripur

Duality transformations within the quantum mechanics of a finite number of degrees of freedom can be regarded as the dependence of the notion of a quantum, i.e., an elementary excitation of the vacuum, on the observer on classical phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. M. Isidro

The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is explored in an intuitive manner by the exercise of constructing a wave in association with a classical particle. Using special relativity, the time coordinate in the frame of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 C. L. Herzenberg

The quantum mechanical equivalent of parametric resonance is studied. A simple model of a periodically kicked harmonic oscillator is introduced which can be solved exactly. Classically stable and unstable regions in parameter space are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Stefan Weigert

We construct the classical dynamical system which has a quantum-like behavior. We have shown that the energy-time uncertainty relation takes place for the system and it has purely classical nature. We investigate the behavior of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergey A. Rashkovskiy