Quantum Canonical Transformations: Physical Equivalence of Quantum Theories
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Two quantum theories are physically equivalent if they are related, not by a unitary transformation, but by an isometric transformation. The conditions under which a quantum canonical transformation is an isometric transformation are given.
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تاریخ انتشار 1993