scholarly journals IMPROVED DIRAC QUANTIZATION OF A FREE PARTICLE

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (31) ◽  
pp. 1915-1922 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOON-TAE HONG ◽  
WON TAE KIM ◽  
YOUNG-JAI PARK

In the framework of Dirac quantization with second-class constraints, a free particle moving on the surface of a (d-1)-dimensional sphere has an ambiguity in the energy spectrum due to the arbitrary shift of canonical momenta. We explicitly show that this spectrum obtained by the Dirac method is consistent with the result of the Batalin–Fradkin–Tyutin formalism, which is an improved Dirac method, at the level of the first-class constraint by fixing the ambiguity, and discuss its physical consequences.

1997 ◽  
Vol 232 (5) ◽  
pp. 327-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagen Kleinert ◽  
Sergei V. Shabanov

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (21) ◽  
pp. 1577-1588 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOON-TAE HONG

We study a free particle system residing on a torus to investigate its Becci–Rouet–Stora–Tyutin symmetries associated with its Stückelberg coordinates, ghosts and anti-ghosts. By exploiting zeibein frame on the toric geometry, we evaluate energy spectrum of the system to describe the particle dynamics. We also investigate symplectic structures involved in the free particle system on the torus.


The quantization of the energy spectrum of a free particle in the presence of a binding interaction is reconsidered here. These considerations form the basis of a simple analytic approximation of general applicability to eigenvalue problems.


2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (09) ◽  
pp. 699-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
KATSUTARO SHIMIZU

We evaluated a quantum mechanical potential of a free particle on D-dimensional sphere. This system has the second-class constraints. We change the second-class constraints into first-class ones with new canonical variables. A BRST transformation is induced by the first-class constraints and is discretized. A discretized BRST invariant path integral is considered and the quantum mechanical potential is evaluated as R/12.


2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 1361-1376 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOON-TAE HONG ◽  
YOUNG-JAI PARK ◽  
KUNIHARU KUBODERA ◽  
FRED MYHRER

The Batalin–Fradkin–Tyutin (BFT) scheme, which is an improved version of Dirac quantization, is applied to the CP1 model, and the compact form of a nontrivial first-class Hamiltonian is directly obtained by introducing the BFT physical fields. We also derive a BRST-invariant gauge fixed Lagrangian through the standard path-integral procedure. Furthermore, performing collective coordinate quantization we obtain energy spectrum of rigid rotator in the CP1 model. Exploiting the Hopf bundle, we also show that the CP1 model is exactly equivalent to the O(3) nonlinear sigma model at the canonical level.


2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (37) ◽  
pp. 2799-2813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. M. CHO ◽  
SOON-TAE HONG ◽  
J. H. KIM ◽  
YOUNG-JAI PARK

We discuss the quantization of the restricted gauge theory of SU(2) QCD regarding it as a second-class constraint system, and construct the BRST symmetry of the constrained system in the framework of the improved Dirac quantization scheme. Our analysis tells that one could efficiently quantize the restricted QCD under the BRST symmetry as if it is a first-class constraint system.


2006 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 655-666 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEXEY V. GOLOVNEV

We give an explicit operator realization of Dirac quantization of free particle motion on a surface of codimension 1. It is shown that the Dirac recipe is ambiguous and a natural way of fixing this problem is proposed. We also introduce a modification of Dirac procedure which yields zero quantum potential. Some problems of Abelian conversion quantization are pointed out.


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