Quantum nonlinear lattices and coherent state vectors

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DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00065-2zbMATH Open0960.81035arXivquant-ph/0001050OpenAlexW1966657821MaRDI QIDQ1808347FDOQ1808347


Authors: Magnus Johansson, Demosthenes Ellinas, Peter Leth Christiansen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 6 December 1999

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

Abstract: Quantized nonlinear lattice models are considered for two different classes, boson and fermionic ones. The quantum discrete nonlinear Schroedinger model (DNLS) is our main objective, but its so called modified discrete nonlinear (MDNLS) version is also included, together with the fermionic polaron (FP) model. Based on the respective dynamical symmetries of the models, a method is put forward which by use of the associated boson and spin coherent state vectors (CSV) and a factorization ansatz for the solution of the Schroedinger equation, leads to quasiclassical Hamiltonian equations of motion for the CSV parameters. Analysing the geometrical content of the factorization ansatz made for the state vectors invokes the study of the Riemannian and symplectic geometry of the CSV manifolds as generalized phase spaces. Next, we investigate analytically and numerically the behavior of mean values and uncertainties of some physically interesting observables as well as the modifications in the quantum regime of processes such as the discrete self trapping (DST), in terms of the Q-function and the distribution of excitation quanta of the lattice sites. Quantum DST in the symmetric ordering of lattice operators is found to be relatively enhanced with respect to the classical DST. Finally, the meaning of the factorization ansatz for the lattice wave function is explained in terms of disregarded quantum correlations, and as a quantitative figure of merit for that ansatz a correlation index is introduced.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001050




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