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| Sep 23, 2010 at 21:47 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Absolutely: it would be fantastic to be able to quantise complicated systems! Alas, I think it is fair to say we are far from that. One often hears that we only know how to quantise the harmonic oscillator and while this is an exaggeration, it is not too far from the truth. | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 19:49 | comment | added | student | Do you think it would be bring new insights to have quantization methods which work generally well for complicated geometries so that you are able to quantize the reduced space directly in physical relevant cases? | |
| Sep 23, 2010 at 17:33 | history | answered | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |