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===Classical and quantum brackets=== Dirac's book<ref name="dirac"/> details his popular rule of supplanting [[Poisson bracket]]s by [[commutator]]s: {{Equation box 1 |indent =:: |equation = <math>\{A,B\} \longmapsto \tfrac{1}{i \hbar} [\hat{A},\hat{B}] ~.</math> |cellpadding= 6 |border |border colour = #0073CF |background colour=#F9FFF7}} One might interpret this proposal as saying that we should seek a "quantization map" <math>Q</math> mapping a function <math>f</math> on the classical phase space to an operator <math>Q_f</math> on the quantum Hilbert space such that <math display="block">Q_{\{f,g\}} = \frac{1}{i\hbar}[Q_f,Q_g]</math> It is now known that there is no reasonable such quantization map satisfying the above identity exactly for all functions <math>f</math> and {{nowrap|<math>g</math>.}}{{Citation needed|date=April 2023}}
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