Propagation of quantum expectations with Husimi functions

DOI10.1137/120889186zbMATH Open1276.81089arXiv1207.7211OpenAlexW2077680512MaRDI QIDQ2862278FDOQ2862278

Authors: Johannes Keller, Caroline Lasser 

Publication date: 14 November 2013

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

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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)

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