Wave packet revivals and the energy eigenvalue spectrum of the quantum pendulum.

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(03)00171-4zbMATH Open1037.81027arXivquant-ph/0307079OpenAlexW3104385697MaRDI QIDQ1419795FDOQ1419795

Authors: M. A. Doncheski, R. W. Robinett 

Publication date: 26 January 2004

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

Abstract: The rigid pendulum, both as a classical and as a quantum problem, is an interesting system as it has the exactly soluble harmonic oscillator and the rigid rotor systems as limiting cases in the low- and high-energy limits respectively. The energy variation of the classical periodicity ($au$) is also dramatic, having the special limiting case of $auoinfty$ at the 'top' of the classical motion (i.e. the separatrix.) We study the time-dependence of the quantum pendulum problem, focusing on the behavior of both the (approximate) classical periodicity and especially the quantum revival and superrevival times, as encoded in the energy eigenvalue spectrum of the system. We provide approximate expressions for the energy eigenvalues in both the small and large quantum number limits, up to 4th order in perturbation theory, comparing these to existing handbook expansions for the characteristic values of the related Mathieu equation, obtained by other methods. We then use these approximations to probe the classical periodicity, as well as to extract information on the quantum revival and superrevival times. We find that while both the classical and quantum periodicities increase monotonically as one approaches the 'top' in energy, from either above or below, the revival times decrease from their low- and high-energy values until very near the separatrix where they increase to a large, but finite value.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0307079

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Holonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F20)

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