21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Quantum-like features in classical mechanics

24 Jun 2026, 11:00
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral not-in-competition (Graduate Student) / Orale non-compétitive (Étudiant(e) du 2e ou 3e cycle) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) (DTP) W1-11 | (DPT)

Speaker

Mustafa Amin (University of Lethbridge)

Description

Hilbert space, superposition, uncertainty relations, and Wigner negativity, are terms usually associated with quantum phenomena and formalism. We show that all of these have analogues in classical mechanics, and attempt to explain their (in hindsight, unsurprising) meaning in a classical context. This is in an effort to characterize and identify the root of the differences between classical and quantum mechanics, and investigate the possibility of combining both theories into a single framework.

Keyword-1 uncertainty relations
Keyword-2 Wigner negativity
Keyword-3 Koopman-von Neumann mechanics

Author

Mustafa Amin (University of Lethbridge)

Co-author

Mark Walton

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