Quantization of a free particle interacting linearly with a harmonic oscillator

DOI10.1063/1.2819060zbMATH Open1163.37350arXivnlin/0702025OpenAlexW3105769752WikidataQ45934185 ScholiaQ45934185MaRDI QIDQ3636699FDOQ3636699

Thomas Mainiero, Mason A. Porter

Publication date: 1 July 2009

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the quantization of a free particle coupled linearly to a harmonic oscillator. This system, whose classical counterpart has clearly separated regular and chaotic regions, provides an ideal framework for studying the quantization of mixed systems. We identify key signatures of the classically chaotic and regular portions in the quantum system by constructing Husimi distributions and investigating avoided level crossings of eigenvalues as functions of the strength and range of the interaction between the system's two components. We show, in particular, that the Husimi structure becomes mixed and delocalized as the classical dynamics becomes more chaotic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0702025

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Strange attractors, chaotic dynamics of systems with hyperbolic behavior (37D45)

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• Quantization of the particle with a linear massless solution
• Adding and subtracting energy quanta of the harmonic oscillator
• A quantum particle in a moving finite harmonic potential

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