ON THE HERMAN–KLUK SEMICLASSICAL APPROXIMATION

DOI10.1142/S0129055X1000417XzbMATH Open1206.35212arXiv0908.0847MaRDI QIDQ3067153FDOQ3067153

Authors: Didier Robert 

Publication date: 20 January 2011

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For a subquadratic symbol $H$ on $R^{d}imes{R}^d=T^{\ast }(R^d)$, the quantum propagator of the time dependent Schr"odinger equation $ihbarfracpartialpsipartialt=hatHpsi$ is a Semiclassical Fourier-Integral Operator when $hatH=H(x,hbar{D}_x)$ ($hbar$-Weyl quantization of $H$). Its Schwartz kernel is describe by a quadratic phase and an amplitude. At every time $t$, when $hbar$ is small, it is "essentially supported" in a neighborhood of the graph of the classical flow generated by $H$, with a full uniform asymptotic expansion in $hbar$ for the amplitude. In this paper our goal is to revisit this well known and fondamental result with emphasis on the flexibility for the choice of a quadratic complex phase function and on global $L^2$ estimates when $hbar$ is small and time $t$ is large. One of the simplest choice of the phase is known in chemical physics as Herman-Kluk formula. Moreover we prove that the semiclassical expansion for the propagator is valid for $|t|<<frac14delta|loghbar|$ where $delta>0$ is a stability parameter for the classical system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0847

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zbMATH Keywords

coherent statesEhrenfest timesemiclassical Fourier-integral operatortime dependent Schrödinger equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Fourier integral operators applied to PDEs (35S30) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Methods of ordinary differential equations applied to PDEs (35A24)

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