Exponentially accurate semiclassical dynamics: Propagation, localization, Ehrenfest times, scattering, and more general states.

DOI10.1007/PL00001017zbMath1050.81017arXivmath-ph/9911036OpenAlexW3106320177MaRDI QIDQ5927936

Alain Joye, George A. Hagedorn

Publication date: 25 March 2001

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove six theorems concerning exponentially accurate semiclassical quantum mechanics. Two of these theorems are known results, but have new proofs. Under appropriate hypotheses, they conclude that the exact and approximate dynamics of an initially localized wave packet agree up to exponentially small errors in $hbar$ for finite times and for Ehrenfest times. Two other theorems state that for such times the wave packets are localized near a classical orbit up to exponentially small errors. The fifth theorem deals with infinite times and states an exponentially accurate scattering result. The sixth theorem provides extensions of the other five by allowing more general initial conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9911036

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Scattering theory for PDEs (35P25) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05)

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