Demystifying the constancy of the Ermakov-Lewis invariant for a time-dependent oscillator

DOI10.1142/S0217732318300057zbMATH Open1383.34055arXiv1712.07328OpenAlexW2780478443MaRDI QIDQ4608734FDOQ4608734

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Publication date: 23 March 2018

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that the time dependent harmonic oscillator possesses a conserved quantity, usually called Ermakov-Lewis invariant. I provide a simple physical interpretation of this invariant as well as a whole family of related invariants. This interpretation does not seem to have been noticed in the literature before. The procedure also allows one to tackle some key conceptual issues which arise in the study of quantum fields in external, time dependent, backgrounds like in the case of particle production in an expanding universe and Schwinger effect.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07328

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zbMATH Keywords

Schwinger effecttime-dependent harmonic oscillatorBogoliubov coefficientsErmakov-Lewis invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, invariants of ordinary differential equations (34C14) Nonlinear oscillations and coupled oscillators for ordinary differential equations (34C15) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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