On close relationship between classical time-dependent harmonic oscillator and non-relativistic quantum mechanics in one dimension

DOI10.1007/S10773-010-0654-1zbMATH Open1213.81143arXiv1006.3352OpenAlexW3101386166MaRDI QIDQ539611FDOQ539611

Authors: Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg 

Publication date: 30 May 2011

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, I present a mapping between representation of some quantum phenomena in one dimension and behavior of a classical time-dependent harmonic oscillator. For the first time, it is demonstrated that quantum tunneling can be described in terms of classical physics without invoking violations of the energy conservation law at any time instance. A formula is presented that generates a wide class of potential barrier shapes with the desirable reflection (transmission) coefficient and transmission phase shift along with the corresponding exact solutions of the time-independent Schr"odinger's equation. These results, with support from numerical simulations, strongly suggest that two uncoupled classical harmonic oscillators, which initially have a 90degree relative phase shift and then are simultaneously disturbed by the same parametric perturbation of a finite duration, manifest behavior which can be mapped to that of a single quantum particle, with classical 'range relations' analogous to the uncertainty relations of quantum physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3352

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsuncertainty relationstunnelingtime-dependent harmonic oscillator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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