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arXiv:quant-ph/0612022

Deformation Quantization of Confined Systems

Nuno Costa Dias, João Nuno Prata

Published Dec 4, 2006• 2 citations
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Abstract

The Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum confined systems poses several interesting problems. The energy stargenvalue equation, as well as the dynamical equation does not display the expected solutions. In this paper we review some previous results in the subject and add some new contributions. We reformulate the confined energy eigenvalue equation by adding to the Hamiltonian a new (distributional) boundary potential. The new Hamiltonian is proved to be globally defined and self-adjoint. Moreover, it yields the correct Weyl-Wigner formulation of the confined system.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0612022

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