Relaxation of quantum states under energy perturbations

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2003.1113zbMATH Open1058.81016arXivquant-ph/0208073OpenAlexW2119581520WikidataQ62272476 ScholiaQ62272476MaRDI QIDQ3043373FDOQ3043373

Authors: Dorje C. Brody, Lane P. Hughston, Joanna Syroka 

Publication date: 6 August 2004

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The energy-based stochastic extension of the Schrodinger equation is perhaps the simplest mathematically rigourous and physically plausible model for the reduction of the wave function. In this article we apply a new simulation methodology for the stochastic framework to analyse formulae for the dynamics of a particle confined to a square-well potential. We consider the situation when the width of the well is expanded instantaneously. Through this example we are able to illustrate in detail how a quantum system responds to an energy perturbation, and the mechanism, according to the stochastic evolutionary law, by which the system relaxes spontaneously into one of the stable eigenstates of the Hamiltonian. We examine in particular how the expectation value of the Hamiltonian and the probability distribution for the position of the particle change in time. An analytic expression for the typical timescale of relaxation is derived. We also consider the small perturbation limit, and discuss the relation between the stochastic framework and the quantum adiabatic theorem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208073

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

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