Complex Correspondence Principle
Abstract
Quantum mechanics and classical mechanics are distinctly different theories, but the correspondence principle states that quantum particles behave classically in the limit of high quantum number. In recent years much research has been done on extending both quantum and classical mechanics into the complex domain. These complex extensions continue to exhibit a correspondence, and this correspondence becomes more pronounced in the complex domain. The association between complex quantum mechanics and complex classical mechanics is subtle and demonstrating this relationship requires the use of asymptotics beyond all orders.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- February 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.061601
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0912.2069
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvL.104f1601B
- Keywords:
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- 11.30.Er;
- 02.30.Fn;
- 03.65.-w;
- 05.40.Fb;
- Charge conjugation parity time reversal and other discrete symmetries;
- Several complex variables and analytic spaces;
- Quantum mechanics;
- Random walks and Levy flights;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Mathematical Physics;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages, 6 figures