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Introducing nonlinear gauge transformations in a family of nonlinear Schrödinger equations.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Doebner Gol'din |
| Copyright Year | 1996 |
| Abstract | In earlier work we proposed a family of nonlinear time-evolution equations for quantum mechanics associated with certain unitary group representations [Doebner and Goldin, Phys. Lett. A 162, 397 (1992); J. Phys. A 27, 1771 (1994)]. Such nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations are expected to describe irreversible and dissipative quantum systems. Here we introduce and justify physically the group of nonlinear gauge transformations necessary to interpret our equations. We determine the parameters that are actually gauge invariant and describe some of their properties. Our conclusions contradict, at least in part, the view that any nonlinearity in quantum mechanics leads to unphysical predictions. We also show how time-dependent nonlinear gauge transformations connect our equations to those proposed by Kostin [J. Chem. Phys. 57, 3589 (1972)] and by Bialynicki-Birula and Mycielski [Ann. Phys. 100, 62 (1976)]. We believe our approach to be a fundamental generalization of the usual notions about gauge transformations in quantum mechanics. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society. |
| Starting Page | 3764 |
| Ending Page | 3771 |
| Page Count | 8 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.3764 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.pt.tu-clausthal.de/preprints/asi-tpa/001-96.ps.gz |
| PubMed reference number | 9913920 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.54.3764 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 54 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Journal | Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
