Adventures of the coupled Yang–Mills oscillators: I. Semiclassical expansion

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/1/004zbMATH Open1090.81041arXivquant-ph/0506214OpenAlexW1977047360MaRDI QIDQ3376072FDOQ3376072

Authors: Sergei G. Matinyan, Berndt Müller 

Publication date: 20 March 2006

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

Abstract: We study the quantum mechanical motion in the $x^2{y}^2$ potentials with $n=2,3$, which arise in the spatially homogeneous limit of the Yang-Mills (YM) equations. These systems show strong stochasticity in the classical limit ($hbar=0$) and exhibit a quantum mechanical confinement feature. We calculate the partition function $Z(t)$ going beyond the Thomas-Fermi (TF) approximation by means of the semiclassical expansion using the Wigner-Kirkwood (WK) method. We derive a novel compact form of the differential equation for the WK function. After separating the motion in the channels of the equipotential surface from the motion in the central region, we show that the leading higher-order corrections to the TF term vanish up to eighth order in $hbar$, if we treat the quantum motion in the hyperbolic channels correctly by adiabatic separation of the degrees of freedom. Finally, we obtain an asymptotic expansion of the partition function in terms of the parameter $g^{2}hba{r}^4{t}^3$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506214

Recommendations

• Adventures of the coupled Yang–Mills oscillators: II. YM–Higgs quantum mechanics
• The semiclassical limit of the two-dimensional quantum Yang–Mills model
• The partition function and level density for Yang–Mills–Higgs quantum mechanics
• The partition function in the Wigner–Kirkwood expansion
• Small h asymptotics for quantum partition functions associated to particles in external Yang-Mills potentials

zbMATH Keywords

Thomas-Fermi approximationYang-Mills equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

Cited In (5)

• Sharp spectral estimates in domains of infinite volume
• Semiclassical series from path integral
• The partition function in the Wigner–Kirkwood expansion
• Adventures of the coupled Yang–Mills oscillators: II. YM–Higgs quantum mechanics
• Classical limits for quantum particles in external Yang-Mills potentials

This page was built for publication: Adventures of the coupled Yang–Mills oscillators: I. Semiclassical expansion

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3376072)