The semiclassical propagator in Fock space: dynamical echo and many-body interference

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2015.0159zbMATH Open1353.81063arXiv1511.07234OpenAlexW3099847136WikidataQ40950819 ScholiaQ40950819MaRDI QIDQ2955878FDOQ2955878

Authors: Thomas Engl, Juan-Diego Urbina, Klaus Richter 

Publication date: 13 January 2017

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a semiclassical approach to many-body quantum propagation in terms of coherent sums over quantum amplitudes associated with the solutions of corresponding classical nonlinear wave equations. This approach adequately describes interference effects in the many-body space of interacting bosonic systems. The main quantity of interest, the transition amplitude between Fock states when the dynamics is driven by both single-particlecontributions and many-body interactions of similar magnitude, is non-perturbatively constructed in the spirit of Gutzwiller's derivation of the van Vleck propagator from the path integral representation of the time evolution operator, but lifted to the space of symmetrized many-body states. Effects beyond mean-field, here representing the classical limit of the theory, are semiclassically described by means of interfering amplitudes where the action and stability of the classical solutions enter. In this way, a genuinely many-body echo phenomenon, coherent backscattering in Fock space, is presented arising due to coherent quantum interference between classical solutions related by time reversal.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.07234

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special quantum systems, such as solvable systems (81Q80)

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