Statistical properties of the energy in time-dependent homogeneous power law potentials

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/35/355102zbMATH Open1300.81044arXiv1405.5803OpenAlexW2091038633MaRDI QIDQ2921132FDOQ2921132

Dimitris Andresas, Marko Robnik

Publication date: 30 September 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study 1D Hamilton systems with homogeneous power law potential and their statistical behaviour, assuming the microcanonical distribution of the initial conditions and describing its change under monotonically increasing time-dependent function $a(t)$ (prefactor of the potential). Using the nonlinear WKB-like method by Papamikos and Robnik {em J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. {�f 44} (2012) 315102} and following a previous work by Papamikos G and Robnik M {em J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. {�f 45} (2011) 015206} we specifically analyze the mean energy, the variance and the adiabatic invariant (action) of the systems for large time $tightarrowinfty$ and we show that the mean energy and variance increase as powers of $a(t)$, while the action oscillates and finally remains constant. By means of a number of detailed case studies we show that the theoretical prediction is excellent which demonstrates the usefulness of the method in such applications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5803

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear WKB methodhomogeneous power law potentialstime-dependent Hamilton systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20)

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