On the geodesic nature of Wegner's flow

DOI10.1007/S10701-011-9606-8MaRDI QIDQ427289zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuichi Itto, Sumiyoshi Abe

Publication date 13 June 2012

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4425

zbMATH Keywords

diagonalization of Hamiltoniangeodesic curveWegner's method of flow equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: Wegner's method of flow equations offers a useful tool for diagonalizing a given Hamiltonian and is widely used in various branches of quantum physics. Here, generalizing this method, a condition is derived, under which the corresponding flow of a quantum state becomes geodesic in a submanifold of the projective Hilbert space, independently of specific initial conditions. This implies the geometric optimality of the present method as an algorithm of generating stationary states. The result is illustrated by analyzing some physical examples.

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