Comment on “Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty”

D. C. Latimer
Phys. Rev. A 75, 066101 – Published 22 June 2007

Abstract

In Phys. Rev. A 70, 032104 (2004), M. Montesinos and G. F. Torres del Castillo consider various symplectic structures on the classical phase-space of the two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator. Using Dirac’s quantization condition, the authors investigate how these alternative symplectic forms affect this system’s quantization. They claim that these symplectic structures result in mutually inequivalent quantum theories. In fact, we show here that there exists a unitary map between the two representation spaces so that the various quantizations are equivalent.

  • Received 28 March 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.066101

©2007 American Physical Society

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D. C. Latimer

  • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA

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Symplectic quantization, inequivalent quantum theories, and Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty

Merced Montesinos and G. F. Torres del Castillo
Phys. Rev. A 70, 032104 (2004)

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Vol. 75, Iss. 6 — June 2007

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