Brizuela, David (2014). Statistical moments for classical and quantum dynamics: Formalism and generalized uncertainty relations. Phys. Rev. D, 90 (8). COLLEGE PK: AMER PHYSICAL SOC. ISSN 1550-2368

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Abstract

The classical and quantum evolution of a generic probability distribution is analyzed. To that end, a formalism based on the decomposition of the distribution in terms of its statistical moments is used, which makes explicit the differences between the classical and quantum dynamics. In particular, there are two different sources of quantum effects. Distributional effects, which are also present in the classical evolution of an extended distribution, are due to the fact that all moments cannot be vanishing because of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. In addition, the noncommutativity of the basic quantum operators add some terms to the quantum equations of motion that explicitly depend on the Planck constant and are not present in the classical setting. These are thus purely quantum effects. Some particular Hamiltonians are analyzed that have very special properties regarding the evolution they generate in the classical and quantum sector. In addition, a large class of inequalities obeyed by high-order statistical moments, and in particular uncertainty relations that bound the information that is possible to obtain from a quantum system, are derived.

Item Type: Journal Article
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Brizuela, DavidUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-425435
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.90.085027
Journal or Publication Title: Phys. Rev. D
Volume: 90
Number: 8
Date: 2014
Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Place of Publication: COLLEGE PK
ISSN: 1550-2368
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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WAVE-PACKET MOTION; SYSTEMS; EQUATIONS; FIELDMultiple languages
Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics, Particles & FieldsMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/42543

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