Quantization with Action-Angle Coherent States
Abstract
For a single degree of freedom confined mechanical system with given energy, we know that the motion is always periodic and action-angle variables are convenient choice as conjugate phase-space variables. We construct action-angle coherent states in view to provide a quantization scheme that yields precisely a given observed energy spectrum for such a system. This construction is based on a Bayesian approach: each family corresponds to a choice of probability distributions such that the classical energy averaged with respect to this probability distribution is precisely up to a constant shift. The formalism is viewed as a natural extension of the Bohr-Sommerfeld rule and an alternative to the canonical quantization. In particular, it also yields a satisfactory angle operator as a bounded self-adjoint operator.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1110.6678,
title = {Quantization with Action-Angle Coherent States},
author = {J. -P. Gazeau and R. Kanamoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.6678},
year = {2015}
}