A geometric approach to the canonical reformulation of quantum mechanics
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Abstract The measure of distinguishability between two neighboring preparations of a physical system by a measurement apparatus naturally defines the line element of the preparation space of the system. We point out that quantum mechanics can be derived from the invariance of this line element in the canonical formulation. The canonical formulation of quantum statistical mechanics is also discussed.
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Quantum Field Theory Course
Part I. Classical Mechanics 9 0. Intro 9 0.1. Mechanical systems 9 0.2. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation 9 1. Lagrangian approach 10 1.1. Manifolds 10 1.2. Differentiation 11 1.3. Calculus of Variations on an interval 11 1.4. Lagrangian reformulation of Newton‘s equation 13 2. Hamiltonian approach 14 2.1. Metrics: linear algebra 14 2.2. The passage to the cotangent vector bundle via the k...
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