Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Comment on 'Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty'

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
 [1]
  1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383 (United States)
In Phys. Rev. A 70, 032104 (2004), M. Montesinos and G. F. Torres del Castillo consider various symplectic structures on the classical phase-space of the two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator. Using Dirac's quantization condition, the authors investigate how these alternative symplectic forms affect this system's quantization. They claim that these symplectic structures result in mutually inequivalent quantum theories. In fact, we show here that there exists a unitary map between the two representation spaces so that the various quantizations are equivalent.
OSTI ID:
21000566
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 75; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Similar Records

Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty
Journal Article · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:20645996

Reply to 'Comment on 'Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty''
Journal Article · Fri Jun 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:21000567

Quantization of symplectic tori in a real polarization
Journal Article · Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997 · Journal of Mathematical Physics · OSTI ID:544535