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arxiv: 1110.6678 · v1 · pith:QISXZWD4new · submitted 2011-10-31 · 🪐 quant-ph · math-ph· math.MP

Quantization with Action-Angle Coherent States

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keywords action-angleenergyquantizationchoicecoherentgivenoperatorprecisely
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For a single degree of freedom confined mechanical system with given energy, we know that the motion is always periodic and action-angle variables are convenient choice as conjugate phase-space variables. We construct action-angle coherent states in view to provide a quantization scheme that yields precisely a given observed energy spectrum ${E_n}$ for such a system. This construction is based on a Bayesian approach: each family corresponds to a choice of probability distributions such that the classical energy averaged with respect to this probability distribution is precisely $E_n$ up to a constant shift. The formalism is viewed as a natural extension of the Bohr-Sommerfeld rule and an alternative to the canonical quantization. In particular, it also yields a satisfactory angle operator as a bounded self-adjoint operator.

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