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Quantum mechanics is reformulated using Hartle's definition of the state of an individual physical system and a variant of von Neumann's propositional calculus. An elementary set of quantum postulates lead inductively to the familiar…

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The formalism of classical and quantum mechanics on phase space leads to symplectic and Heisenberg group representations, respectively. The Wigner functions give a representation of the quantum system using classical variables. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

I describe a method of inferring the past of quantum observables given the initial state and the subsequent measurement results using Wigner quasi-probability representations. The method is proved to be compatible with logic for large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 Mankei Tsang

A Lie system is a non-autonomous system of ordinary differential equations describing the integral curves of a $t$-dependent vector field taking values in a finite-dimensional Lie algebra of vector fields. Lie systems have been generalised…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 J. F. Cariñena , J. de Lucas , C. Sardón

Lie algebroids provide a natural medium to discuss classical systems, however, quantum systems have not been considered. In aim of this paper is to attempt to rectify this situation. Lie algebroids are reviewed and their use in classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Ronald J. Ezuck

Some of the most enduring questions in physics--including the quantum measurement problem and the quantization of gravity--involve the interaction of a quantum system with a classical environment. Two linearly coupled harmonic oscillators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rachael M. McDermott , Ian H. Redmount

Recently, it has been proved that a nonlinear quantum oscillator, generalization of the isotonic one, is exactly solvable for certain values of its parameters. Here we show that the Schroedinger equation for such an oscillator can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-10 Javier Sesma

We review aspects of classical and quantum mechanics of many anyons confined in an oscillator potential. The quantum mechanics of many anyons is complicated due to the occurrence of multivalued wavefunctions. Nevertheless there exists, for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Date , M. V. N. Murthy , Radhika Vathsan

Quantum annealing provides a powerful platform for simulating magnetic materials and realizing statistical physics models, presenting a compelling alternative to classical Monte Carlo methods. We demonstrate that quantum annealers can…

The Weyl-Wigner representation of quantum mechanics allows one to map the density operator in a function in phase space - the Wigner function - which acts like a probability distribution. In the context of statistical mechanics, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Marcos Gil de Oliveira , Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida

The new numerical approach for consideration of quantum dynamics and calculations of the average values of quantum operators and time correlation functions in the Wigner representation of quantum statistical mechanics has been developed.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Filinov , Yu. Lozovik , A. Filinov , I. Zacharov , A. Oparin

The algebra of polynomials in operators that represent generalized coordinate and momentum and depend on the Planck constant is defined. The Planck constant is treated as the parameter taking values between zero and some nonvanishing $h_0$.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Prvanovic , Z. Maric

The measurement problem in quantum mechanics originates in the inability of the Schr\"odinger equation to predict definite outcomes of measurements. This is due to the lack of objectivity of the eigenstates of the measuring apparatus. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-26 Partha Ghose

The averaging method is a classical powerful tool in perturbation theory of dynamical systems. There are two major obstacles to applying the averaging method, resonances and separatrices. In this paper we obtain realistic asymptotic…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Anatoly Neishtadt , Alexey Okunev

Conventional weak-coupling perturbation theory suffers from problems that arise from resonant coupling of successive orders in the perturbation series. Multiple-scale perturbation theory avoids such problems by implicitly performing an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Carl M. Bender , Luis M. A. Bettencourt

In the limit of large quantum excitations, the classical and quantum probability distributions for a Schr\"odinger equation can be compared by using the corresponding WKBJ solutions whose rapid oscillations are averaged. This result is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Claude Semay , Ludovic Ducobu

Classical transport equations with probabilistic initial conditions can be viewed as quantum systems. In a discrete version they are probabilistic automata. The time-local probabilistic information is encoded in a classical wave function.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Christof Wetterich

Starting on the basis of the non-commutative q-differential calculus, we introduce a generalized q-deformed Schr\"odinger equation. It can be viewed as the quantum stochastic counterpart of a generalized classical kinetic equation, which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Lavagno

With the aim to construct a dynamical model with quantum group symmetry, the $q$-deformed Schr\"odinger equation of the harmonic oscillator on the $N$-dimensional quantum Euclidian space is investigated. After reviewing the differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ursula Carow-Watamura , Satoshi Watamura

p-Mechanics is a consistent physical theory which describes both quantum and classical mechanics simultaneously. We continue the development of p-mechanics by introducing the concept of states. The set of coherent states we introduce allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alastair Brodlie