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RESEARCH ON THE TRANSFORMATION FROM OF QUAMTUM MECHANICS SATISFYING GALILEO'S PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY

Wenwen LYU, Feng Wang

Published Jun 1, 2025• 0 citations
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This paper introduces the development of the principle of relativity from Galileo's principle of relativity to special relativity and then to general relativity. Inspired by this, we explored the transformation form of quantum mechanics to meet Galileo's principle of relativity. Firstly, from the point that unitary transformation can keep the physical laws of quantum mechanics unchanged, we correspond the momentum translation unitary transformation in quantum mechanics to the Galileo transformation in classical mechanics, and reveal that the transformation form of quantum mechanics that meets the Galileo principle of relativity can be realized through the momentum translation unitary transformation. This inquiry is conducive to students' in-depth thinking about the corresponding relationship between quantum mechanics and classical physics, can help beginners reduce the conflict between quantum physics and classical physics, and help students build a bridge from classical to quantum thinking.

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10.26599/phys.2025.9320305

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Non-relativistic quantum mechanics for a free particle is shown to emerge from classical mechanics through an invariance principle under transformations that preserve the Heisenberg position–momentum inequality. These transformations are induced by isotropic space dilations. This invariance imposes a change in the laws of classical mechanics that exactly corresponds to the transition-to-quantum mechanics. The Schrödinger equation appears jointly with a second nonlinear equation describing non-unitary processes. Unitary and non-unitary evolutions are exclusive and appear sequentially in time. The non-unitary equation admits solutions that seem to correspond to the collapse of the wavefunction.
We propose six principles as the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics: principle of space and time, Galilean principle of relativity, Hamilton's principle, wave principle, probability principle, and principle of indestructibility and increatiblity of particles. We deductively develop the formalism of quantum mechanics on the basis of them: we determine the form of the Lagrangian that satisfies requirements of these principles, and obtain the Schroedinger equation from the Lagrangian. We also derive the canonical commutation relations. Then we adopt the following four guide lines. First, we do not premise the relations between dynamical variables in classical mechanics. Second, we define energy, momentum, and angular momentum as the constants of motion that are derived from homogeneity and isotropy in space and time on the basis of principle of space and time. Since energy and momentum are quantitatively defined in classical mechanics, we define them in quantum mechanics so that the corresponding conservation laws are satisfied in a coupling system of a quantum particle and a classical particle. Third, we define Planck's constant and the mass of a particle as proportionality constants between energy and frequency due to one of Einstein-de Broglie formulas and between momentum and velocity, respectively. We shall obtain the canonical commutation relations and the Schroedinger equation for a particle in an external field in the definitive form. We shall also prove that relations between dynamical variables in quantum mechanics have the same forms for those in classical mechanics.
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Closed systems in Newtonian mechanics obey the principle of Galilean relativity. However, the usual Lagrangian for Newtonian mechanics, formed from the difference of kinetic and potential energies, is not invariant under the full group of Galilean transformations. In quantum mechanics, Galilean boosts require a non-trivial transformation rule for the wave function and a concomitant “projective representation” of the Galilean symmetry group. Using Feynman's path integral formalism, this latter result can be shown to be equivalent to the non-invariance of the Lagrangian. Thus, using path integral methods, the representation of certain symmetry groups in quantum mechanics can be simply understood in terms of the transformation properties of the classical Lagrangian and conversely. The main results reported here should be accessible to students and teachers of physics—particularly classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, and mathematical physics—at the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate levels, providing a useful exposition for those wanting to explore topics such as the path integral formalism for quantum mechanics, relativity principles, Lagrangian mechanics, and representations of symmetries in classical and quantum mechanics.