Quantum Mechanics of a Particle on a Curved Surface : Comparison of Three Different Approaches : Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics

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When quantum mechanical motion of a particle constrained to a curved surface in the Euclidean space is considered, three different approaches may be adopted to describe the system. One is the confining approach which enforces a particle to stay in the surface by a physical confining potential. Both of the others follow Dirac's general prescription to treat a constrained system, but employ different constraints, namely the usual and the conservative constraints, respectively. The three approaches lead to results which do not in general agree with each other, though they give the same classical equation of motion. It is emphasized that the arbitrariness in the ordering of operators cannot be avoided when the latter two approaches are adopted. In the approach with the conservative constraint, however, there is a physical ordering, which leads to the result in agreement with that of the confining approach. We interpret these discrepancy and agreement in simple physical terms.
理論物理学刊行会の論文
1992-08-25