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Quantum Smooth Boundary Forces from Constrained Geometries

Quantum Physics 2019-11-04 v4 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We implement the so-called Weyl-Heisenberg covariant integral quantization in the case of a classical system constrained by a bounded or semi-bounded geometry. The procedure, which is free of the ordering problem of operators, is illustrated with the basic example of the one-dimensional motion of a free particle in an interval, and yields a fuzzy boundary, a position-dependent mass (PDM), and an extra potential on the quantum level. The consistency of our quantization is discussed by analyzing the semi-classical phase space portrait of the derived quantum dynamics, which is obtained as a regularization of its original classical counterpart.

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@article{arxiv.1902.07305,
  title  = {Quantum Smooth Boundary Forces from Constrained Geometries},
  author = {J. -P. Gazeau and T. Koide and D. Noguera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.07305},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

22 pages, 14 figures, the title was changed, many references for the position-dependent mass were delited, the published version in J. Phys. A

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