Suppressed dispersion for a randomly kicked quantum particle in a Dirac comb

DOI10.1007/S10955-013-0708-XMaRDI QIDQ1949326zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeremy Clark

Publication date 7 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4502

zbMATH Keywords

adiabatic limitcentral limit theoremdiffractionDirac combLindblad equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with statistical mechanics (35Q82) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Brownian motion (60J65) Dynamic continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C21) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: I study a model for a massive one-dimensional particle in a singular periodic potential that is receiving kicks from a gas. The model is described by a Lindblad equation in which the Hamiltonian is a Schr"odinger operator with a periodic $delta$-potential and the noise has a frictionless form arising in a Brownian limit. I prove that an emergent Markov process in a semi-classical limit governs the momentum distribution in the extended-zone scheme. The main result is a central limit theorem for a time integral of the momentum process, which is closely related to the particle's position. When normalized by $t^{5/4}$, the integral process converges to a time-changed Brownian motion whose rate depends on the momentum process. The scaling $t^{5/4}$ contrasts with $t^{3/2}$, which would be expected for the case of a smooth periodic potential or for a comparable classical process. The difference is a wave effect driven by Bragg reflections that occur when the particle's momentum is kicked near the half-spaced reciprocal lattice.

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