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arXiv:2005.08696 · Journal of High Energy Physics Gravitation and Cosmology

Affine Quantization on the Half Line

Laure Gouba

Published Jan 1, 2021• 37 citations
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Abstract

The similarity between classical and quantum physics is large enough to make an investigation of quantization methods a worthwhile endeavour. As history has shown, Dirac's canonical quantization method works reasonably well in the case of conventional quantum mechanics over Rn but it may fail in non-trivial phase spaces and also suffer from ordering problems. Affine quantization is an alternative method, similar to the canonical quantization, that may offer a positive result in situations for which canonical quantization fails. In this paper we revisit the affine quantization method on the half-line. We formulate and solve some simple models, the free particle and the harmonic oscillator.

DOI
10.4236/jhepgc.2021.71019

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The similarity between classical and quantum physics is large enough to make an investigation of quantization methods a worthwhile endeavour. As history has shown, Dirac's canonical quantization method works reasonably well in the case of conventional quantum mechanics over Rn but it may fail in non-trivial phase spaces and also suffer from ordering problems. Affine quantization is an alternative method, similar to the canonical quantization, that may offer a positive result in situations for which canonical quantization fails. In this paper we revisit the affine quantization method on the half-line. We formulate and solve some simple models, the free particle and the harmonic oscillator.
Canonical quantization is a wonderful procedure for selected problems, but there are many problems for which it fails. Affine quantization is a different procedure that has shown that it can solve many problems that canonical quantization cannot. Here, words like succeed and fail to refer to whether the quantization results are correct or incorrect. This paper offers two simple examples that serve to introduce affine quantization, and compare studies of two different quantization procedures. Brief comments about field theory and gravity problems undergoing quantization by affine procedures complete the paper.
Canonical quantization is a wonderful procedure for selected problems, but there are many problems for which it fails. Affine quantization is a different procedure that has shown that it can solve many problems that canonical quantization cannot. Here, words like succeed and fail refer to whether the quantization results are correct or incorrect. This paper offers two simple examples that serve to introduce affine quantization, and compare studies of two different quantization procedures. Brief comments about field theory and gravity problems undergoing quantization by affine procedures completes the paper.
For a particle moving on a half-line or in an interval the operator $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{p}=\ensuremath{-}i{\ensuremath{\partial}}_{x}$ is not self-adjoint and thus does not qualify as the physical momentum. Consequently canonical quantization based on $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{p}$ fails. Based upon an alternative concept for a self-adjoint momentum operator ${\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{p}}_{R}$, we show that canonical quantization can indeed be implemented on the half-line and on an interval. Both the Hamiltonian $\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{H}$ and the momentum operator ${\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{p}}_{R}$ are endowed with self-adjoint extension parameters that characterize the corresponding domains $D(\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{H})$ and $D({\stackrel{\ifmmode \hat{}\else \^{}\fi{}}{p}}_{R})$ in the Hilbert space. When one replaces Poisson brackets by commutators, one obtains meaningful results only if the corresponding operator domains are properly taken into account. The alternative concept for the momentum is used to describe the results of momentum measurements of a quantum mechanical particle that is reflected at impenetrable boundaries, either at the end of the half-line or at the two ends of an interval.
Canonical quantization is a wonderful procedure for selected problems, but there are many problems for which it fails. Affine quantization is a different procedure that has shown that it can solve many problems that canonical quantization cannot. Here, words like succeed and fail refer to whether the quantization results are correct or incorrect. This paper offers two simple examples that serve to introduce affine quantization, and compare studies of two different quantization procedures. Brief comments about field theory and gravity problems undergoing quantization by affine procedures completes the paper.
Affine quantization is a relatively new procedure, and it can solve many new problems. This essay reviews this new, and novel, procedure for particle problems, as well as those of fields and gravity. New quantization tools, which are extremely close to, and even constructed from, the tools of canonical quantization, are able to fully solve selected problems that using the standard canonical quantization would fail. In particular, improvements can even be found with an affine quantization of fields, as well as gravity.