Geometry and dynamics of Gaussian Wave packets and their Wigner transforms

DOI10.1063/1.4995233zbMATH Open1372.81104arXiv1611.04081OpenAlexW2562386662MaRDI QIDQ5366990FDOQ5366990

Tomoki Ohsawa, Cesare Tronci

Publication date: 10 October 2017

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

Abstract: We find a relationship between the dynamics of the Gaussian wave packet and the dynamics of the corresponding Gaussian Wigner function from the Hamiltonian/symplectic point of view. The main result states that the momentum map corresponding to the natural action of the symplectic group on the Siegel upper half space yields the covariance matrix of the corresponding Gaussian Wigner function. This fact, combined with Kostant's coadjoint orbit covering theorem, establishes a symplectic/Poisson-geometric connection between the two dynamics. The Hamiltonian formulation naturally gives rise to corrections to the potential terms in the dynamics of both the wave packet and the Wigner function, thereby resulting in slightly different sets of equations from the conventional classical ones. We numerically investigate the effect of the correction term and demonstrate that it improves the accuracy of the dynamics as an approximation to the dynamics of expectation values of observables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.04081

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Coherent states (81R30) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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