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Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg's
principle of uncertainty
Merced Montesinos, G. F. Torres del Castillo
abstract: We analyze the quantum dynamics of the non-relativistic two-dimensional
isotropic harmonic oscillator in Heisenberg's picture. Such a system is taken
as toy model to analyze some of the various quantum theories that can be built
from the application of Dirac's quantization rule to the various symplectic
structures recently reported for this classical system. It is pointed out that
that these quantum theories are inequivalent in the sense that the mean values
for the operators (observables) associated with the same physical classical
observable do not agree with each other. The inequivalence does not arise from
ambiguities in the ordering of operators but from the fact of having several
symplectic structures defined with respect to the same set of coordinates. It
is also shown that the uncertainty relations between the fundamental
observables depend on the particular quantum theory chosen. It is important to
emphasize that these (somehow paradoxical) results emerge from the combination
of two paradigms: Dirac's quantization rule and the usual Copenhagen
interpretation of quantum mechanics.
- oai_identifier:
- oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0407051
- categories:
- quant-ph gr-qc hep-th
- comments:
- 8 pages, LaTex file, no figures. Accepted for publication in Phys.
Rev. A
- doi:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.70.032104
- arxiv_id:
- quant-ph/0407051
- journal_ref:
- Phys.Rev. A70 (2004) 032104
- created:
- 2004-07-06
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