arXiv:1901.01762 · Modern Physics Letters A

A novel view on successive quantizations, leading to increasingly more “miraculous” states

Matej Pavšič

Published May 31, 2019• 4 citations

Abstract

A series of successive quantizations is considered, starting with the quantization of a non-relativistic or relativistic point particle: (1) quantization of a particle’s position, (2) quantization of wave function, (3) quantization of wave functional. The latter step implies that the wave packet profiles forming the states of quantum field theory are themselves quantized, which gives new physical states that are configurations of configurations. In the procedure of quantization, instead of the Schrödinger first-order equation in time derivative for complex wave function (or functional), the equivalent second-order equation for its real part was used. In such a way, at each level of quantization, the equation a quantum state satisfies is just like that of a harmonic oscillator, and wave function(al) is composed in terms of the pair of its canonically conjugated variables.

DOI: 10.1142/s0217732319501861

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