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arXiv:1412.5865 · Journal of Physics Conference Series

Unified description of classical and quantum behaviours in a variational principle

Tomoi Koide, Takeshi Kodama, Kazuo Tsushima

Published Jul 3, 2015• 14 citations
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Abstract

We give a pedagogical introduction of the stochastic variational method and show that this generalized variational principle describes classical and quantum mechanics in a unified way.
DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/626/1/012055

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