Quantum correspondence for linear canonical transformations on general Hamiltonian systems
Abstract
General Hamiltonian systems related by linear canonical transformations, which are combinations of the scale and gauge transformations, are considered. Using path integrals, it is proven that each quantum Hamiltonian can be expressed by the classical Hamiltonian whose canonical variables are replaced by their corresponding quantum operators. The relation between the Schrödinger solution and the propagator for the transformed (new) and for the original (old) systems are evaluated by applying the unitary operator which describes the linear relationship between their quantum operators as the corresponding relations between their classical forms. It is shown that the uncertainty relations between the canonical position and momentum operator depend on the gauge function chosen, and satisfy Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. The uncertainty relations between the canonical position and kinetic momentum operator (distinguished from the momentum operator) do not depend on the gauge function chosen, and may not satisfy Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. By the gauge transformation, a single system has innumerable Schrödinger equations, but the quantum averages of the function of the position and kinetic momentum operators are invariant for all solutions, as for classical cases.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.58.1765
- Bibcode:
- 1998PhRvA..58.1765Y
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Ge;
- Solutions of wave equations: bound states