Born-Jordan Quantization and the Uncertainty Principle
Mathematical Physics
2015-06-15 v1 math.MP
Operator Algebras
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The Weyl correspondence and the related Wigner formalism lie at the core of traditional quantum mechanics. We discuss here an alternative quantization scheme, whose idea goes back to Born and Jordan, and which has recently been revived in another context, namely time-frequency analysis. We show that in particular the uncertainty principle does not enjoy full symplectic covariance properties in the Born and Jordan scheme, as opposed to what happens in the Weyl quantization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1303.2590,
title = {Born-Jordan Quantization and the Uncertainty Principle},
author = {Maurice A. de Gosson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2590},
year = {2015}
}