WIGNER DISTRIBUTION FOR ANGLE COORDINATES IN QUANTUM-MECHANICS

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MUKUNDA, N
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[1] Centre for Theoretical Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
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10.1119/1.11869
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G40 [教育学];
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040101 ; 120403 ;
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The method of Wigner distribution functions, and the Weyl correspondence between quantum and classical variables, are extended from the usual kind of canonically conjugate position and momentum operators to the case of an angle and angular momentum operator pair. The sense in which one has a description of quantum mechanics using classical phase-space language is much clarified by this extension. © 1979, American Association of Physics Teachers. All rights reserved.
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