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Discrete symmetries in classical and quantum oscillators
arXiv
Authors: Alexander D. Popov
Year
2026
Paper ID
4228
Status
Preprint
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We consider the nature of the wave function using the example of a harmonic oscillator. We show that the eigenfunctions ψn{=}zn of the quantum Hamiltonian in the complex Bargmann-Fock-Segal representation with zinmathbb C are the coordinates of a classical oscillator with energy En=hbarωn, n=0,1,2,... . They are defined on conical spaces {mathbb C}/{mathbb Z}n with cone angles 2π/n, which are embedded as subspaces in the phase space mathbb C of the classical oscillator. Here {mathbb Z}n is the finite cyclic group of rotations of the space mathbb C by an angle 2π/n. The superposition ψ=sumn cnψn of the eigenfunctions ψn arises only with incomplete knowledge of the initial data for solving the Schrödinger equation, when the conditions of invariance with respect to the discrete groups {mathbb Z}n are not imposed and the general solution takes into account all possible initial data parametrized by the numbers ninmathbb N.
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