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Mathematics of the classical and the quantum

Alexey A. Kryukov

Published Aug 6, 2000• 6 citations
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Abstract

Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes beyond the results provided by the Ehrenfest theorem. The Newtonian dynamics was shown to be the Schrodinger dynamics of states constrained to a submanifold of the space of states, identified with the classical phase space of the system. Quantum observables are identified with vector fields on the space of states. The commutators of observables are expressed through the curvature of the space. The resulting embedding of the Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics into a unified geometric framework is rigid in the sense that the Schrodinger dynamics is a unique extension of the Newtonian one. Under the embedding, the normal distribution of measurement results associated with a classical measurement implies the Born rule for the probability of transition of quantum states. The mathematics of the discovered relationship between the classical and the quantum is reviewed and investigated here in detail, and applied to the process of measurement of spin and position observables.

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Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes beyond the results provided by the Ehrenfest theorem. The Newtonian dynamics was shown to be the Schrodinger dynamics of states constrained to a submanifold of the space of states, identified with the classical phase space of the system. Quantum observables are identified with vector fields on the space of states. The commutators of observables are expressed through the curvature of the space. The resulting embedding of the Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics into a unified geometric framework is rigid in the sense that the Schrodinger dynamics is a unique extension of the Newtonian one. Under the embedding, the normal distribution of measurement results associated with a classical measurement implies the Born rule for the probability of transition of quantum states. The mathematics of the discovered relationship between the classical and the quantum is reviewed and investigated here in detail, and applied to the process of measurement of spin and position observables.
Newtonian and Schrödinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes beyond the results provided by the Ehrenfest theorem. The Newtonian dynamics was shown to be the Schrödinger dynamics of states constrained to a submanifold of the space of states, identified with the classical phase space of the system. Quantum observables are identified with vector fields on the space of states. The commutators of observables are expressed through the curvature of the space. The resulting embedding of the Newtonian and Schrödinger dynamics into a unified geometric framework is rigid in the sense that the Schrödinger dynamics is a unique extension of the Newtonian one. Under the embedding, the normal distribution of measurement results associated with a classical measurement implies the Born rule for the probability of transition of quantum states. The mathematics of the discovered relationship between the classical and the quantum is reviewed and investigated here in detail and applied to the process of measurement of spin and position observables.
Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes beyond the results provided by the Ehrenfest theorem. The Newtonian dynamics was shown to be the Schrodinger dynamics of states constrained to a submanifold of the space of states, identified with the classical phase space of the system. Quantum observables are identified with vector fields on the space of states. The commutators of observables are expressed through the curvature of the space. The resulting embedding of the Newtonian and Schrodinger dynamics into a unified geometric framework is rigid in the sense that the Schrodinger dynamics is a unique extension of the Newtonian one. Furthermore, under the embedding, the normal distribution of measurement results associated with a classical measurement implies the Born rule for the probability of transition of quantum states. In this paper, the implications of the obtained theory to the process of measurement in quantum theory are analyzed. The double-slit, EPR and Schrodinger cat type experiments are reviewed anew. It is shown that, despite reproducing the usual results of quantum theory, the framework is not simply a reformulation of the theory. New experiments to discover the predicted effects are proposed.
It has been recently shown that Newtonian dynamics is the Schrodinger dynamics of the system whose state is constrained to a submanifold in the space of states of the system. Thus defined, the submanifold can be identified with the classical phase space of the system. The classical space is then also embedded into the space of states in a physically meaningful way. The resulting unified geometric framework establishes a new connection between classical and quantum physics. The framework is rigid in the sense that the Schrodinger dynamics is a unique extension of the Newtonian one from the classical phase space submanifold to the space of states. Quantum observables in the framework are identified with vector fields on the space of states. The commutators of canonical conjugate observables are expressed through the curvature of the sphere of normalized states. The velocity and acceleration of a particle in Newtonian dynamics are components of the velocity of state under the corresponding Schrodinger evolution. The metric properties of the embedding of the classical space into the space of states result in a relationship between the normal distribution of the position of a particle and the Born rule for the probability of transition of quantum states. In this paper the implications of the obtained mathematical results to the process of measurement in quantum physics are investigated. It is argued that interaction with the environment constrains the state of a macroscopic body to the classical space. The notion of collapse of a quantum state is analyzed. The double-slit, EPR and Schrodinger cat type experiments are reviewed anew. It is shown that, despite reproducing the usual results of quantum theory, the framework is not simply a reformulation of the theory. New experiments to discover the predicted effects are proposed.
Newtonian and Schrödinger dynamics can be formulated in a physically meaningful way within the same Hilbert space framework. This fact was recently used to discover an unexpected relation between classical and quantum motions that goes beyond the results provided by the Ehrenfest theorem. A formula relating the normal probability distribution and the Born rule was also found. Here the dynamical mechanism responsible for the latter formula is proposed and applied to measurements of macroscopic and microscopic systems. A relationship between the classical Brownian motion and the diffusion of state on the space of states is discovered. The role of measuring devices in quantum theory is investigated in the new framework. It is shown that the so-called collapse of the wave function is not measurement specific and does not require a “concentration” near the eigenstates of the measured observable. Instead, it is explained by the common diffusion of a state over the space of states under interaction with the apparatus and the environment. This in turn provides us with a basic reason for the definite position of macroscopic bodies in space.
We develop a geometric formulation of classical and quantum dynamics in which projective Hilbert space is taken as the primary state space and classical configuration and phase spaces arise as submanifolds of localized quantum states. The Fubini-Study metric induces the Euclidean metric on these submanifolds, while the tangential component of Schrödinger evolution reproduces Hamiltonian and Newtonian dynamics. We then extend the construction to stochastic motion. Brownian dynamics on the localized classical manifold is lifted to a common stochastic unitary evolution in projective Hilbert space; under homogeneity, isotropy, and independence assumptions, the corresponding Hermitian increments have Gaussian Unitary Ensemble statistics. This yields a random-matrix Schrödinger dynamics whose transition probabilities depend only on Fubini-Study distance. Through the embedding of localized states, the classical Gaussian transition law becomes the Born rule in projective state space. Measurement outcomes are identified with first arrival at detector-defined finite-resolution equivalence classes, while each realized state-space evolution remains linear and unitary. The framework is applied to classical emergence, macroscopic stabilization, double-slit experiments, composite systems, and entangled states. A spatially local Caldeira-Leggett-type system-environment model is also shown, under explicit thermal, symmetry, Ohmic, and coarse-graining assumptions, to generate the Brownian family required by the stochastic lift. The remaining open problem is to establish the range and universality of this mechanism for realistic many-body measuring environments.