A detailed proof of the von Neumann's quantum ergodic theorem

DOI10.1007/S40509-017-0100-7MaRDI QIDQ1701537zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marcos Sebastiani, A. O. Lopes

Publication date 27 February 2018

Published in Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.02736

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltoniangeneric orthogonal decompositionvon Neumann's quantum ergodic theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Algebraic ergodic theory, cocycles, orbit equivalence, ergodic equivalence relations (37A20) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: We present a simplified proof of the von Neumann's Quantum Ergodic Theorem. This important result was initially published in german by J. von Neumann in 1929. We are interested here in the time evolution $ps{i}_t$, $tgeq0$, (for large times) under the Schrodinger equation associated to a given fixed Hamiltonian $H:mathcalHomathcalH$ and a general initial condition $ps{i}_0$. The dimension of the Hilbert space $mathcalH$ is finite.

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