Fibre bundle formulation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. IV. Mixed states and evolution transport's curvature

Abstract

We propose a new systematic fibre bundle formulation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The new form of the theory is equivalent to the usual one but it is in harmony with the modern trends in theoretical physics and potentially admits new generalizations in different directions. In it a pure state of some quantum system is described by a state section (along paths) of a (Hilbert) fibre bundle. It's evolution is determined through the bundle (analogue of the) Schr\"odinger equation. Now the dynamical variables and the density operator are described via bundle morphisms (along paths). The mentioned quantities are connected by a number of relations derived in this work. The present fourth part of this series is devoted mainly to the fibre bundle description of mixed quantum states. We show that to the conventional density operator there corresponds a unique density morphism (along paths) for which the corresponding equations of motion are derived. It is also investigated the bundle description of mixed quantum states in the different pictures of motion. We calculate the curvature of the evolution transport and prove that it is curvature free iff the values of the Hamiltonian operator at different moments commute.Comment: 14 standard (11pt, A4) LaTeX 2e pages. The packages AMS-LaTeX and amsfonts are required. Minor style changes, a problem with the bibliography is corrected. Continuation of quant-ph/9803083, quant-ph/9803084, quant-ph/9804062 and quant-ph/9806046. For continuation of the series and related papers, view http://www.inrne.bas.bg/mathmod/bozhome