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View SchemaOn the notion of phase in mechanics
| Authors | Maurice de Gosson |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0404072 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0404072 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/37/29/008 |
Abstract
The notion of phase plays an esential role in both classical and quantum mechanics.But what is a phase? We show that if we define the notion of phase in phase (!) space one can very easily and naturally recover the Heisenberg-Weyl formalism; this is achieved using the properties of the Poincare-Cartan invariant, and without making any quantum assumption.
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