A Parity-Conserving Canonical Quantization for the Baker's Map

dc.creatorRubin, Ron
dc.creatorSalwen, Nathan
dc.date1998-01-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:14:43Z
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dc.descriptionWe present here a complete description of the quantization of the baker's map. The method we use is quite different from that used in Balazs and Voros [BV] and Saraceno [S]. We use as the quantum algebra of observables the operators generated by {exp(2 Pi ix),exp (2 Pi ip)} and construct a unitary propagator such that as Planck's constant tends to zero,the classical dynamics is returned. For Planck's constant satisfying the integrality condition 1/N with N even, and for periodic boundary conditions for the wave functions on the torus, we show that the dynamics can be reduced to the dynamics on an N-dimensional Hilbert space, and the unitary N by N matrix propagator is the same as given in [BV] except for a small correction of order Planck's constant. This correction is is shown to preserve the symmetry x->1-x and p->1-p of the classical map for periodic boundary conditions.
dc.description23 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801058
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9801058
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/93571
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleA Parity-Conserving Canonical Quantization for the Baker's Map
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