The classical limit of Floquet operators with singular spectrum

DOI10.1016/0022-247X(92)90153-5MaRDI QIDQ1192142zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 27 September 1992

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-247X(92)90153-5

evolution Gaussian packets Neumann boundary conditions oscillator-type propagation along the classical path periodic time-dependent Schrödinger operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theory of linear operators (47A55) Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Coherent states (81R30)

Review text

This is a classical limit result for the time evolution (of Gaussian packets) given by the periodic time-dependent Schrödinger operator \(- d^ 2/dx^ 2+v(x,t)\) on a bounded interval with Neumann boundary conditions and with \(v\in {\mathcal C}^{2+\delta}\). Loosely speaking, it is shown that, in contradistinction to the whole space problem, the evolution approaches an oscillator-type propagation along the classical path only if corrected with suitable unitaries at all intermediate times whenthe classical trajectory hits the boundary. It is hence speculated that the classical behaviour may be chaotic even in cases where the quantum evolution is very regular (the Floquet operator has pure point spectrum).

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