Approximation of semiclassical expectation values by symplectic Gaussian wave packet dynamics

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01462-6zbMATH Open1477.35206arXiv2012.05464OpenAlexW3204589309MaRDI QIDQ2242425FDOQ2242425

Tomoki Ohsawa

Publication date: 9 November 2021

Published in: Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper concerns an approximation of the expectation values of the position and momentum of the solution to the semiclassical Schr"odinger equation with a Gaussian as the initial condition. Of particular interest is the approximation obtained by our symplectic/Hamiltonian formulation of the Gaussian wave packet dynamics that introduces a correction term to the conventional formulation using the classical Hamiltonian system by Hagedorn and others. The main result is a proof that our formulation gives a higher-order approximation than the classical formulation does to the expectation value dynamics under certain conditions on the potential function. Specifically, as the semiclassical parameter $varepsilon$ approaches $0$, our dynamics gives an $O(varepsilo{n}^{3/2})$ approximation of the expectation value dynamics whereas the classical one gives an $O(varepsilon)$ approximation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05464

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zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian dynamics[https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/w/index.php?title=+Special%3ASearch&search=semiclassical+Schr%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BDdinger+equation&go=Go semiclassical Schr��dinger equation]expectation valuesGaussian wave packet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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