pith. sign in

arxiv: 1104.4158 · v2 · pith:C5BFX5DMnew · submitted 2011-04-21 · 🪐 quant-ph

Entangled Wavefunctions from Classical Oscillator Amplitudes

classification 🪐 quant-ph
keywords classicalquantumamplitudesanalogypositiontime-dependentvariablescoefficients
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

In the first days of quantum mechanics Dirac pointed out an analogy between the time-dependent coefficients of an expansion of the Schr\"odinger equation and the classical position and momentum variables solving Hamilton's equations. Here it is shown that the analogy can be made an equivalence in that, in principle, systems of classical oscillators can be constructed whose position and momenta variables form time-dependent amplitudes which are identical to the complex quantum amplitudes of the coupled wavefunction of an N-level quantum system with real coupling matrix elements. Hence classical motion can reproduce quantum coherence.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.