Nonautonomous Hamiltonians

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000026738.52652.6EzbMATH Open0936.35148arXivchao-dyn/9807004MaRDI QIDQ1806475FDOQ1806475

Avy Soffer, Michael I. Weinstein

Publication date: 18 May 2000

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

Abstract: We present a theory of resonances for a class of non-autonomous Hamiltonians to treat the structural instability of spatially localized and time-periodic solutions associated with an unperturbed autonomous Hamiltonian. The mechanism of instability is radiative decay, due to resonant coupling of the discrete modes to the continuum modes by the time-dependent perturbation. This results in a slow transfer of energy from the discrete modes to the continuum. The rate of decay of solutions is slow and hence the decaying bound states can be viewed as metastable. The ideas are closely related to the authors' work on (i) a time dependent approach to the instability of eigenvalues embedded in the continuous spectra, and (ii) resonances, radiation damping and instability in Hamiltonian nonlinear wave equations. The theory is applied to a general class of Schr"odinger equations. The phenomenon of ionization may be viewed as a resonance problem of the type we consider and we apply our theory to find the rate of ionization, spectral line shift and local decay estimates for such Hamiltonians.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9807004

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zbMATH Keywords

resonancesbreatherlifetimeionizationdiscrete modescontinuum modesdecaying bound statesinstability of spatially localized and time-periodic solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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