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TMF, 2005 Volume 143, Number 3, Pages 401–416 (Mi tmf1821)

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A Generalized Coordinate-Momentum Representation in Quantum Mechanics

L. S. Kuz'menkova, S. G. Maksimovb

a M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
b Instituto Tecnologico de Morelia

Abstract: We obtain a one-parameter family of $(q,p)$-representations of quantum mechanics; the Wigner distribution function and the distribution function we previously derived are particular cases in this family. We find the solutions o the evolution equations or the microscopic classical and quantum distribution functions in the form of integrals over paths in a phase space. We show that when varying canonical variables in the Green's function of the quantum Liouville equation, we must use the total increment o the action functional in its path-integral representation, whereas in the Green's function of the classical Liouville equation, the linear part o the increment is sufficient. A correspondence between the classical and quantum schemes holds only under a certain choice of the value of the distribution family parameter. This value corresponds to the distribution unction previously found.

Keywords: $(q,p)$-representation, Liouville equation, path integral.

Received: 22.11.2004
Revised: 20.01.2005

DOI: 10.4213/tmf1821


 English version:
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, 2005, 143:3, 821–835

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