Breakdown of separability due to confinement

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(17)30083-6MaRDI QIDQ1748955zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. I. Man'ko, L. A. Markovich, A. Messina

Publication date 15 May 2018

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04532

zbMATH Keywords

confinementtime evolutioncenter of massquantum boundary conditionsJacobi \(\theta_3\)-function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80)

Abstract: A simple system of two particles in a bidimensional configurational space $S$ is studied. The possibility of breaking in $S$ the time independent Schr"{o}dinger equation of the system into two separated one-dimensional one-body Schr"{o}dinger equations is assumed. In this paper, we focus on how the latter property is countered by imposing such boundary conditions as confinement in a limited region of $S$ and/or restrictions on the joint coordinate probability density stemming from the sign-invariance condition of the relative coordinate (an impenetrability condition). Our investigation demonstrates the reducibility of the problem under scrutiny into that of a single particle living in a limited domain of its bidimensional configurational space. These general ideas are illustrated introducing the coordinates $X_c$ and $x$ of the center of mass of two particles and of the associated relative motion, respectively. The effects of the confinement and the impenetrability are then analyzed by studying with the help of an appropriate Green's function and the time evolution of the covariance of $X_c$ and $x$. Moreover, to calculate the state of the single particle constrained within a square, a rhombus, a triangle and a rectangle the Green's function expression in terms of Jacobi $het{a}_3$-function is applied. All the results are illustrated by examples.

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