Flow equations for the Hénon-Heiles Hamiltonian

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00267-XzbMATH Open1032.81518arXivquant-ph/9809086MaRDI QIDQ1808249FDOQ1808249

Authors: Daniel Cremers, Andreas Mielke 

Publication date: 6 December 1999

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Henon-Heiles Hamiltonian was introduced in 1964 as a mathematical model to describe the chaotic motion of stars in a galaxy. By canonically transforming the classical Hamiltonian to a Birkhoff-Gustavson normalform Delos and Swimm obtained a discrete quantum mechanical energy spectrum. The aim of the present work is to first quantize the classical Hamiltonian and to then diagonalize it using different variants of flow equations, a method of continuous unitary transformations introduced by Wegner in 1994. The results of the diagonalization via flow equations are comparable to those obtained by the classical transformation. In the case of commensurate frequencies the transformation turns out to be less lengthy. In addition, the dynamics of the quantum mechanical system are analyzed on the basis of the transformed observables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9809086

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum chaosflow equationsHénon-Heiles Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Nonlinear dynamics in mechanics (70K99) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Cites Work

• Matrix eigensystem routines - EISPACK guide. 2nd ed
• Chaos in classical and quantum mechanics
• Low temperature equilibrium correlation functions in dissipative quantum systems

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Uses Software

• EISPACK

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