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The quantum potential: symplectic breakdown and dispersion

M. R. Brown

Published Mar 6, 1997• 0 citations
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This paper investigates the composition of the quantum potential and explores its role in the breakdown of symplectic symmetry in quantum mechanics. General expressions are derived for the quantum potential in both configuration space and momentum space representations. By comparing the configuration space and momentum space representations of the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, the quantum potential is shown to break the symplectic symmetry that exists between these two representations in classical mechanics. It is shown that the quantum potential in configuration space may be expressed as the sum of a momentum dispersion energy and a spatial localisation energy. The quantum potential is thus shown to represent the solely quantum aspects of quantum systems. The composition and role of the quantum potential is analysed for a particle in a linear potential and for two eigenstates of the quantum harmonic oscillator.

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This paper investigates the composition of the quantum potential and explores its role in the breakdown of symplectic symmetry in quantum mechanics. General expressions are derived for the quantum potential in both configuration space and momentum space representations. By comparing the configuration space and momentum space representations of the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, the quantum potential is shown to break the symplectic symmetry that exists between these two representations in classical mechanics. It is shown that the quantum potential in configuration space may be expressed as the sum of a momentum dispersion energy and a spatial localisation energy. The quantum potential is thus shown to represent the solely quantum aspects of quantum systems. The composition and role of the quantum potential is analysed for a particle in a linear potential and for two eigenstates of the quantum harmonic oscillator.
The composition of the quantum potential and its role in the breakdown of classical symplectic symmetry in quantum mechanics is investigated. General expressions are derived for the quantum potential in both configuration space and momentum space representations. By comparing the configuration space and momentum space representations of the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, the quantum potential is shown to break the symplectic symmetry that exists between these two representations in classical mechanics. In addition, it is shown that the quantum potential in configuration space may be expressed as the sum of a momentum dispersion energy and a spatial localisation energy; a complementary expression for the quantum potential being found in the momentum representation. The composition and role of the quantum potential in both representations is analysed for a particle in a linear potential and for two eigenstates of the quantum harmonic oscillator.
The behavior of the quantum potential is studied for a particle in a linear and a harmonic potential by means of an extended phase space technique.This is done by obtaining an expression for the quantum potential in momentum space representation followed by the generalization of this concept to extended phase space.It is shown that there exists an extended canonical transformation that removes the expression for the quantum potential in the dynamical equation.The situation, mathematically, is similar to disappearance of the centrifugal potential in going from the spherical to the Cartesian coordinates that changes the physical potential to an effective one.The representation where the quantum potential disappears and the modified Hamilton-Jacobi equation reduces to the familiar classical form, is one in which the dynamical equation turns out to be the Wigner equation.
Apart from the total energy, the two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator possesses three independent constants of motion which, with the standard symplectic structure, generates a dynamical symmetry group isomorphic to SU(2). We show that, by suitably redefining the symplectic structure, any of these three constants of motion can be used as a Hamiltonian, and that the remaining two, together with the total energy, generate a dynamical symmetry group isomorphic to SU(1,1). We also show that the standard energy levels of the quantum two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator and their degeneracies are obtained making use of the appropriate representations of SU(1,1), provided that the canonical commutation relations are modified according to the new symplectic structure. Whereas in classical mechanics the different symplectic structures lead to equivalent formulations of the equations of motion, in quantum mechanics the modifications of the commutation relations should be accompanied by modifications in the interpretation of the formalism in order to obtain results equivalent to those found with the common relations.
By using the formulation of quantum mechanics with classical pictures, the motion of a quantum is analysed for linear harmonic oscillator. On this occasion it is postulated that the quantum mechanical momentum of the quantum is approximately equal to the corresponding classical mechanical momentum in the region of validity of the coordinates. According to this analysis it is shown that the quantum mechanical motion well corresponds to the classical motion, and that the wave equation determines the associated wave along the whole orbit of the quantum in the configuration space and the uniqueness of the wave throughout the orbit plays an important role in quantum mechanics. In addition to the above, an attempt is made to make clear the well-known fact that classical mechanics with the quantization gives approximately the same results as quantum mechanics.
In this work we examine noncommutativity of position coordinates in classical symplectic mechanics and its quantisation.In coordinates {q i , p k } the canonical symplectic two-form is ω 0 = dq i ∧ d p i .It is well known in symplectic mechanics [5, 6,9] that the interaction of a charged particle with a magnetic field can be described in a Hamiltonian formalism without a choice of a potential.This is done by means of a modified symplectic twoform ω = ω 0 -eF, where e is the charge and the (time-independent) magnetic field F is closed: dF = 0.With this symplectic structure, the canonical momentum variables acquire non-vanishing Poisson brackets: {p k , p l } = e F kl (q).Similarly a closed two-form in p-space G may be introduced.Such a dual magnetic field G interacts with the particle's dual charge r.A new modified symplectic two-form ω = ω 0 -eF + rG is then defined.Now, both p-and q-variables will cease to Poisson commute and upon quantisation they become noncommuting operators.In the particular case of a linear phase space R 2N , it makes sense to consider constant F and G fields.It is then possible to define, by a linear transformation, global Darboux coordinates: {ξ i , π k } = δ i k .These can then be quantised in the usual way [ ξ i , π k ] = i δ i k .The case of a quadratic potential is examined with some detail when N equals 2 and 3.