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.
Cite
@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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9 pages, LaTeX