Monday, March 19, 2012

1104.4158 (J. S. Briggs et al.)

Entangled Wavefunctions from Classical Oscillator Amplitudes    [PDF]

J. S. Briggs, A. Eisfeld
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.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.4158

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