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Symplectic Radon Transform and the Metaplectic Representation
We study the symplectic Radon transform from the point of view of the metaplectic representation of the symplectic group and its action on the Lagrangian Grassmannian. We give rigorous proofs in the general setting of multi-dimensional quantum systems. We interpret the Radon transform of a quantum state as a generalized marginal distribution for its Wigner transform; the inverse Radon transform thus appears as a “demarginalization process” for the Wigner distribution.
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The Symplectic Camel and Poincaré Superrecurrence: Open Problems
Poincaré’s Recurrence Theorem implies that any isolated Hamiltonian system evolving in a bounded Universe returns infinitely many times arbitrarily close to its initial phase space configuration. We discuss this and related recurrence properties from the point of view of recent advances in symplectic topology which have not yet reached the Physics community. These properties are closely related to Emergent Quantum Mechanics since they belong to a twilight zone between classical (Hamiltonian) mechanics and its quantization.
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Quantum Polar Duality and the Symplectic Camel: A New Geometric Approach to Quantization
We define and study the notion of quantum polarity, which is a kind of geometric Fourier transform between sets of positions and sets of momenta. Extending previous work of ours, we show that the orthogonal projections of the covariance ellipsoid of a quantum state on the configuration and momentum spaces form what we call a dual quantum pair. We thereafter show that quantum polarity allows solving the Pauli reconstruction problem for Gaussian wavefunctions. The notion of quantum polarity exhibits a strong interplay between the uncertainty principle and symplectic and convex geometry and our approach could therefore pave the way for a geometric and topological version of quantum indeterminacy. We relate our results to the Blaschke–Santaló inequality and to the Mahler conjecture. We also discuss the Hardy uncertainty principle and the less-known Donoho–Stark principle from the point of view of quantum polarity.
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The Pauli Problem for Gaussian Quantum States: Geometric Interpretation
We solve the Pauli tomography problem for Gaussian signals using the notion of Schur complement. We relate our results and method to a notion from convex geometry, polar duality. In our context polar duality can be seen as a sort of geometric Fourier transform and allows a geometric interpretation of the uncertainty principle and allows to apprehend the Pauli problem in a rather simple way.
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Short-Time Propagators and the Born–Jordan Quantization Rule
We have shown in previous work that the equivalence of the Heisenberg and Schrödinger pictures of quantum mechanics requires the use of the Born and Jordan quantization rules. In the present work we give further evidence that the Born–Jordan rule is the correct quantization scheme for quantum mechanics. For this purpose we use correct short-time approximations to the action functional, initially due to Makri and Miller, and show that these lead to the desired quantization of the classical Hamiltonian.
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Generalized Born-Jordan distributions and applications
One of the most popular time-frequency representations is certainly the Wigner distribution. Its quadratic nature is, however, at the origin of unwanted interferences or artefacts. The desire to suppress these artefacts is the reason why engineers, mathematicians and physicists have been looking for related time-frequency distributions, many of them being members of the Cohen class. Among these, the Born-Jordan distribution has recently attracted the attention of many authors, since the so-called ghost frequencies are grandly damped, and the noise is, in general, reduced; it also seems to play a key role in quantum mechanics. The central insight relies on the kernel of such a distribution, which contains the sinus cardinalis sinc, the Fourier transform of the first B-spline B1. The idea is to replace the function B1 with the spline or order n, denoted by Bn, yielding the function (sinc)n when Fourier transformed, whose speed of decay at infinity increases with n. The related Cohen kernel is given by Θn(z1,z2)=sincn(z1⋅z2) , n∈ℕ , and the corresponding time-frequency distribution is called generalized Born-Jordan distribution of ordern. We show that this new representation has a great potential to damp unwanted interference effects and this damping effect increases with n. Our proofs of these properties require an interdisciplinary approach, using tools from both microlocal and time-frequency analysis. As a by-product, a new quantization rule and a related pseudo-differential calculus are investigated.
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Quantum Blobs
Quantum blobs are the smallest phase space units of phase space compatible with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics and having the symplectic group as group of symmetries. Quantum blobs are in a bijective correspondence with the squeezed coherent states from standard quantum mechanics, of which they are a phase space picture. This allows us to propose a substitute for phase space in quantum mechanics. We study the relationship between quantum blobs with a certain class of level sets defined by Fermi for the purpose of representing geometrically quantum states.
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On the Non-Uniqueness of Statistical Ensembles Defining a Density Operator and a Class of Mixed Quantum States with Integrable Wigner Distribution
It is standard to assume that the Wigner distribution of a mixed quantum state consisting of square-integrable functions is a quasi-probability distribution, i.e., that its integral is one and that the marginal properties are satisfied. However, this is generally not true. We introduced a class of quantum states for which this property is satisfied; these states are dubbed “Feichtinger states” because they are defined in terms of a class of functional spaces (modulation spaces) introduced in the 1980s by H. Feichtinger. The properties of these states were studied, giving us the opportunity to prove an extension to the general case of a result due to Jaynes on the non-uniqueness of the statistical ensemble, generating a density operator.
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Born–Jordan Quantization and the Equivalence of the Schrödinger and Heisenberg Pictures
The aim of the famous Born and Jordan 1925 paper was to put Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics on a firm mathematical basis. Born and Jordan showed that if one wants to ensure energy conservation in Heisenberg’s theory it is necessary and sufficient to quantize observables following a certain ordering rule. One apparently unnoticed consequence of this fact is that Schrödinger’s wave mechanics cannot be equivalent to Heisenberg’s more physically motivated matrix mechanics unless its observables are quantized using this rule, and not the more symmetric prescription proposed by Weyl in 1926, which has become the standard procedure in quantum mechanics. This observation confirms the superiority of Born–Jordan quantization, as already suggested by Kauffmann. We also show how to explicitly determine the Born–Jordan quantization of arbitrary classical variables, and discuss the conceptual advantages in using this quantization scheme. We finally suggest that it might be possible to determine the correct quantization scheme by using the results of weak measurement experiments.
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