Propagation of quantum expectations with Husimi functions

DOI10.1137/120889186MaRDI QIDQ2862278zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Johannes Keller, Caroline Lasser

Publication date 14 November 2013

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7211

zbMATH Keywords

expectation valuesHusimi functionstime-dependent Schrödinger equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical integration (65D30) Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

Abstract: We analyse the dynamics of expectation values of quantum observables for the time-dependent semiclassical Schr"odinger equation. To benefit from the positivity of Husimi functions, we switch between observables obtained from Weyl and Anti-Wick quantization. We develop and prove a second order Egorov type propagation theorem with Husimi functions by establishing transition and commutator rules for Weyl and Anti-Wick operators. We provide a discretized version of our theorem and present numerical experiments for Schr"odinger equations in dimensions two and six that validate our results.

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