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Reports on Mathematical Physics

Description of physical systems

Krystyna Bugajska, Slawomir Bugajski

Published Mar 1, 1973• 10 citations
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10.1016/0034-4877(73)90010-4

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A physical theory often admits different mathematical descriptions. Classical mechanics has three familiar formulations: the traditional Newton’s formulation, the Lagrange’s and the Hamilton’s formulations. It is easy to see that these are physically equivalent. Quantum mechanics also admits many different formulations. This chapter discusses how different mathematical descriptions of a probability theory based on a Hilbert space can be physically equivalent. The prescription does not single out a unique Hilbert space nor a unique set of unit vectors and operators for the description of a given quantum system. This non-uniqueness does not matter since operators and unit vectors themselves are not physically measurable quantities. Two different mathematical descriptions of a quantum system are physically equivalent if the unit vectors and selfadjoint operators for the representation of states and observables in the two descriptions are related by a simultaneous unitary transformation.