Unitarity and symmetries of the multicomponent scattering matrix

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2020.168255zbMATH Open1451.82026arXiv2010.15926OpenAlexW3100889973MaRDI QIDQ2216629FDOQ2216629

José-Job Flores-Godoy, Guillermo Fernández-Anaya, L. Diago-Cisneros, H. Rodríguez-Coppola

Publication date: 16 December 2020

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

Abstract: Multicomponent-multiband fluxes of spim-charge carriers, whose components propagate mixed and synchronously, with emph{a priori} nonzero incoming amplitudes, do not obey the standard unitarity condition on the scattering matrix for an arbitrary basis set. For such cases, we have derived a robust theoretical procedure, which is fundamental in quantum-transport problems for unitarity preservation and we have named after emph{structured unitarity condition}. Our approach deals with $(NimesN)$ interacting components (for $Ngeq2$), within the envelope function approximation (EFA), and yet the standard unitary properties of the ($N=1$) scattering matrix are recovered. Rather arbitrary conditions to the basis-set and/or to the output scattering coefficients, are not longer required, if the emph{eigen}-functions are orthonormalized in both the configuration and the spinorial spaces. We expect the present model to be workable, for different kind of multiband-multicomponent physical systems described by Hermitian Hamiltonians within the EFA, with small transformations if any. We foretell the interplay for the state-vector transfer matrix, together with the large values of its condition number, as a novel complementary tools for a more accurate definition of the threshold for tunnelling channels in a scattering experiment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.15926

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zbMATH Keywords

condition numberquantum tunnelingscattering matrixflux conservationunitarity requirement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Tunneling in quantum theory (81U26)

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