Driving quantum systems with superoscillations

DOI10.1063/1.4996135MaRDI QIDQ5357528zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Achim Kempf, Angus Prain

Publication date 11 September 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.04353

zbMATH Keywords

bandlimited functionFourier transformfrequencysuperoscillationsuperresolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: Superoscillations, i.e., the phenomenon that a bandlimited function can temporary oscillate faster than its highest Fourier component, are being much discussed for their potential for `superresolution' beyond the diffraction limit. Here, we consider systems that are driven with a time dependence that is off-resonance for the system, in the Fourier sense. We show that superoscillating sources can temporarily induce resonance during the period when the source is behaving superoscillatory. This observation poses the question as to how the system `undoes' the `false resonance' after the full source has acted and its band limitation is apparent. We discuss several examples of systems which might be capable of distilling the temporary excitation through some non-harmonic effects, such as dissipation or dispersion at high frequencies, opening up the possibility of low frequency detection of `fast' microphysics through superoscillations. We conclude that, either superoscillations really can beat the bandlimit and achieve superresolution (`kinematic superresolution') or the superoscillating high frequency is absorbed and we gain dynamical access to the physics of high frequency processes with low frequency signals (`dynamical superresolution').

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