Classical and quantum dynamics of a periodically driven particle in a triangular well

DOI10.1006/APHY.1996.0005MaRDI QIDQ1906333zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael E. Flatté, Martin Holthaus

Publication date 25 June 1996

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9506001

zbMATH Keywords

Floquet statesHamiltonian systemsquantum tunnelingtriangular well model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15)

Abstract: We investigate the correspondence between classical and quantum mechanics for periodically time dependent Hamiltonian systems, using the example of a periodically forced particle in a one-dimensional triangular well potential. In particular, we consider quantum mechanical Floquet states associated with resonances in the classical phase space. When the classical motion exhibits {it sub}harmonic resonances, the corresponding Floquet states maintain the driving field's periodicity through dynamical tunneling. This principle applies both to Floquet states associated with classical invariant vortex tubes surrounding stable, elliptic periodic orbits and to Floquet states that are associated with unstable, hyperbolic periodic orbits. The triangular well model also poses a yet unsolved mathematical problem, related to perturbation theory for systems with a dense pure point spectrum. The present approximate analytical and numerical results indicate that quantum tunneling between different resonance zones is of crucial importance for the question whether the driven triangular well has a dense point or an absolutely continuous quasienergy spectrum, or whether there is a transition from the one to the other.

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