Localization of quantum wave packets

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/41/3/035307zbMATH Open1132.81037OpenAlexW2055223850MaRDI QIDQ5440366FDOQ5440366

Authors Eric Sträng

Publication date 4 February 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3784

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Coherent states (81R30) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

Abstract: We study the semiclassical propagation of squeezed Gau{ss}ian states. We do so by considering the propagation theorem introduced by Combescure and Robert cite{CR97} approximating the evolution generated by the Weyl-quantization of symbols $H$. We examine the particular case when the Hessian $H^{primeprime}(X_t)$ evaluated at the corresponding solution $X_t$ of Hamilton's equations of motion is periodic in time. Under this assumption, we show that the width of the wave packet can remain small up to the Ehrenfest time. We also determine conditions for ``classical revivals in that case. More generally, we may define recurrences of the initial width. Some of these results include the case of unbounded classical motion. In the classically unstable case we recover an exponential spreading of the wave packet as in cite{CR97}.

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