Approximation of semiclassical expectation values by symplectic Gaussian wave packet dynamics

DOI10.1007/S11005-021-01462-6MaRDI QIDQ2242425zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tomoki Ohsawa

Publication date 9 November 2021

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonian dynamicsexpectation valuesGaussian wave packetsemiclassical Schrödinger equation

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)

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.

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