Relation To Classical Mechanics
By contrast, in classical physics, all observables commute and the commutator would be zero. However, an analogous relation exists, which is obtained by replacing the commutator with the Poisson bracket multiplied by i ħ:
This observation led Dirac to propose that the quantum counterparts of classical observables f, g satisfy
In 1946, Hip Groenewold demonstrated that a general systematic correspondence between quantum commutators and Poisson brackets could not hold consistently. However, he did appreciate that such a systematic correspondence does, in fact, exist between the quantum commutator and a deformation of the Poisson bracket, the Moyal bracket, and, in general, quantum operators and classical observables and distributions in phase space. He thus finally elucidated the correspondence mechanism, Weyl quantization, that underlies an alternate equivalent mathematical approach to quantization known as deformation quantization.
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