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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Quantum canonical invariance-a Moyal approach

Gerald V. Dunne

Published May 21, 1988• 25 citations
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Abstract

The quasiclassical generalised Moyal quantisation procedure is applied to the problem of quantum canonical invariance. Simple new formulae for the Moyal bracket corresponding to various correspondence rules are given, and are used to calculate the 'additional potential terms' arising from a point canonical transformation made on a free Hamiltonian. The status of canonical transformations in other equivalent quantum phase space formulations is also reviewed.

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10.1088/0305-4470/21/10/012

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Statistical reformulation of quantum mechanics in terms of phase-space distribution functions as given by Moyal using Weyl's correspondence rule between classical functions and operators has been extended to various different correspondence rules. The dynamical bracket in the Weyl correspondence (the ``Moyal'' or the ``sine'' bracket) is shown to be a Lie bracket. It is further shown that if the theory is restricted to Lie brackets of the form [u(p, q),υ(p, q)]={f(∂2∂q1 ∂p2−∂2∂q2 ∂p1)u(p1, q1)υ(p2, q2)},evaluated for p1 = p2 = p; q1 = q2 = q after differentiation, then the only admissible functional form of f is f(x) = β[(sin αx)/α], where α and β are constants. A law of multiplication which is associative and distributive with respect to addition is also introduced in each case. It gives a correct correspondence between operator multiplication and the multiplication of classical functions. The dynamical brackets obtained in each case are also found to be Lie brackets. Conditions on the phase-space distribution functions to describe pure states are also given.
A new approach to perturbation theory in the quantum phase-space formalism is proposed, in order to devise some approximated description of the quantum phase-space dynamics, which is not directly related to the usual semi-classical approximation. A general class of equivalent quasi-distribution functions based on the Wigner-Moyal formalism is considered and a first-order invariant formulation of the dynamics is obtained. The relationship between the various phase-space representation is expressed in term of a pseudo-differential operator defined by the Moyal product. In particular, our theory is applied to the sub-class of representations obtained by a first order perturbation of the Wigner representation. Finally the connection of our approach with some well established gauge-invariant formulation of the Wigner dynamics in the presence of an external magnetic field is investigated.
We discuss how the Hamiltonian changes in quantum canonical transformations. To the operator $\stackrel{^}{\mathcal{H}}(\stackrel{^}{p},\stackrel{^}{q})$ one can associate (in a given ordering rule) a ccc-number function H(p,q)\mathcal{H}(p,q)H(p,q). It is this function that appears in the action of the phase-space path integral. A quantum canonical transformation $\stackrel{^}{\mathcal{H}}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{\stackrel{^}{\mathcal{H}}}^{\ensuremath{'}}$ can now be expressed as an integral transformation ${\mathcal{H}}^{\ensuremath{'}}(\overline{p},\overline{q})=\ensuremath{\int}\mathrm{dp}\mathrm{dq}\mathcal{T}(\overline{p},\overline{q};p,q)\mathcal{H}(p,q)$. The kernel T\mathcal{T}T is constructed explicitly for point transformations and for the $p=\ensuremath{-}\overline{q}$, q=p‾q=\overline{p}q=p​ reflection by studying changes of variables in the path integral. The ordering dependence of T\mathcal{T}T is displayed. The invariance of commutation rules is also discussed.