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View SchemaQuantum Mechanics as a Simple Generalization of Classical Mechanics
| Authors | Don N. Page |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0204015 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0204015 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10701-009-9324-7 |
| Journal | Found.Phys.39:1197-1204,2009 |
Abstract
A motivation is given for expressing classical mechanics in terms of diagonal projection matrices and diagonal density matrices. Then quantum mechanics is seen to be a simple generalization in which one replaces the diagonal real matrices with suitable Hermitian matrices.
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