Phys. Rev. A 57, 3291–3303 (1998)Time-dependent invariants and Green functions in the probability representation of quantum mechanicsReceived 19 December 1997; published in the issue dated May 1998 In the probability representation of quantum mechanics, quantum states are represented by a classical probability distribution, the marginal distribution function (MDF), whose time dependence is governed by a classical evolution equation. We find and explicitly solve, for a wide class of Hamiltonians, equations for the Green function of such an equation, the so-called classical propagator. We elucidate the connection of the classical propagator to the quantum propagator for the density matrix and to the Green function of the Schrödinger equation. Within the new description of quantum mechanics we give a definition of coherence solely in terms of properties of the MDF and we test the definition recovering well known results. As an application, the forced parametric oscillator is considered. Its classical and quantum propagator are found, together with the MDF for coherent and Fock states. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.3291
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.57.3291
PACS:
03.65.-w
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