Open AccessDIRAC AND HAMILTON
Author(s) -
P. G. L. Leach
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta polytechnica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.207
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1805-2363
pISSN - 1210-2709
DOI - 10.14311/ap.2014.54.0127
Subject(s) - hamiltonian (control theory) , physics , quantum mechanics , classical mechanics , dirac (video compression format) , dirac equation , hamiltonian mechanics , relativistic quantum mechanics , mathematical physics , quantum , mathematics , quantum dissipation , mathematical optimization , phase space , neutrino
Dirac devised his theory of Quantum Mechanics and recognised that his operators resembled the canonical coordinates of Hamiltonian Mechanics. This gave the latter a new lease of life. We look at what happens to Dirac’s Quantum Mechanics if one starts from Hamiltonian Mechanics.