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Quantum Mechanics as a Simple Generalization of Classical Mechanics

Quantum Physics 2009-11-05 v1

Abstract

A motivation is given for expressing classical mechanics in terms of diagonal projection matrices and diagonal density matrices. Then quantum mechanics is seen to be a simple generalization in which one replaces the diagonal real matrices with suitable Hermitian matrices.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0204015,
  title  = {Quantum Mechanics as a Simple Generalization of Classical Mechanics},
  author = {Don N. Page},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0204015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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