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Xie Chuan-Mei, Fan Hong-Yi. Quantum mechanical version of classical Liouville theoremJ. Chin. Phys. B, 2013, 22(3): 030501.
| Xie Chuan-Mei, Fan Hong-Yi. Quantum mechanical version of classical Liouville theoremJ. Chin. Phys. B, 2013, 22(3): 030501. |
Quantum mechanical version of classical Liouville theorem
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Abstract
In terms of the coherent state evolution in phase space, we present a quantum mechanical version of the classical Liouville theorem. The evolution of coherent state from |z〉to |sz-rz*〉angle corresponds to the motion from a point z(q,p) to another point sz-rz* with |s|2-|r|2=1. The evolution is governed by the so-called Fresnel operator U(s,r) recently proposed in quantum optics theory, which classically corresponds to the matrix optics law and the optical Fresnel transformation and obeys the group product rules. In another word, we can recapitulate the Liouville theorem in the context of quantum mechanics by virtue of coherent state evolution in phase space, which seems to be a combination of quantum statistics and quantum optics. -
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