Classical Stochastic Representation of Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

We show that the dynamics of a quantum system can be represented by the dynamics of an underlying classical systems obeying the Hamilton equations of motion. This is achieved by transforming the phase space of dimension 2n into a Hilbert space of dimension n which is obtained by a peculiar canonical transformation that changes a pair of real canonical variables into a pair of complex canonical variables which are complex conjugate of each other. The probabilistic character of quantum mechanics is devised by treating the wave function as a stochastic variable. The dynamics of the underlying system is chosen so as to preserve the norm of the state vector.