Semiclassics for particles with spin via a Wigner-Weyl-type calculus

DOI10.1007/S00023-013-0294-0zbMATH Open1301.81065arXiv1307.8068OpenAlexW2070632642MaRDI QIDQ466933FDOQ466933

Authors: Omri Gat, Max Lein, Stefan Teufel 

Publication date: 31 October 2014

Published in: Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show how to relate the full quantum dynamics of a spin-1/2 particle on R^d to a classical Hamiltonian dynamics on the enlarged phase space R^d x S^2 up to errors of second order in the semiclassical parameter. This is done via an Egorov-type theorem for normal Wigner-Weyl calculus for R^d [Lei10,Fol89] combined with the Stratonovich-Weyl calculus for SU(2) [VGB89]. For a specific class of Hamiltonians, including the Rabi- and Jaynes-Cummings model, we prove an Egorov theorem for times much longer than the semiclassical time scale. We illustrate the approach for a simple model of the Stern-Gerlach experiment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.8068

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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