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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

On quantization of simple harmonic oscillators

Kazuhiko Odaka, Tatsuya Kishi, S. Kamefuchi

Published Jun 7, 1991• 85 citations
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Abstract

A general framework is presented of quantizing the system of a simple harmonic oscillator. Various methods of quantization so far proposed are accommodated here in a unified form. Some remarks are also made on quantization for the case of more than one oscillator.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/24/11/004

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