Power-law energy splitting generated by tunnelling between non-smooth tori

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/35/8/307zbMATH Open1049.81530arXivquant-ph/0110126OpenAlexW2045540465MaRDI QIDQ4545280FDOQ4545280

Authors: Zai-Qiao Bai 

Publication date: 15 August 2002

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

Abstract: We discuss the energy level splitting $Deltaepsilon$ due to quantum tunneling between congruent tori in phase space. In analytic cases, it is well known that $Deltaepsilon$ decays faster than power of $hbar$ in the semi-classical limit. This is not true in non-smooth cases, specifically, when the tori are connected by line on which the Hamiltonian is not smooth. Under the assumption that the non-smoothness depends only upon the x- or p-coordinate, the leading term in the semi-classical expansion of $Deltaepsilon$ is derived, which shows that $Deltaepsilon$ decays as $hba{r}^{k+1}$ when $hbaro0$ with k being the order of non-smoothness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110126

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum chaos (81Q50)

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