Hamilton's equation from heisenberg equation of motion

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I was wondering how to derive hamilton's equation (in the form of poisson brackets) from Heisenberg's equation of motion
 
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jelathome said:
I was wondering how to derive hamilton's equation (in the form of poisson brackets) from Heisenberg's equation of motion

For any two operators [itex]\hat{ A }[/itex] and [itex]\hat{ B }[/itex], one can show that
[tex]\mbox{ Lim }_{ \hbar \rightarrow 0 } \frac{ 1 }{ i \hbar } [ \hat{ A } , \hat{ B } ] = \{ A ( x , p ) , B ( x , p ) \}_{ PB } .[/tex]
This is proved in

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