A time-dependent perturbative analysis for a quantum particle in a cloud chamber

DOI10.1007/S00023-010-0037-4MaRDI QIDQ625723zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gianfausto Dell'Antonio, Rodolfo Figari, Alessandro Teta

Publication date 25 February 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5503

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time-dependent Schrödinger equations and Dirac equations (35Q41) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Perturbation theories for operators and differential equations in quantum theory (81Q15)

Abstract: We consider a simple model of a cloud chamber consisting of a test particle (the alpha-particle) interacting with two other particles (the atoms of the vapour) subject to attractive potentials centered in $a_1,a_{2}inmathbb{R}^3$. At time zero the alpha-particle is described by an outgoing spherical wave centered in the origin and the atoms are in their ground state. We show that, under suitable assumptions on the physical parameters of the system and up to second order in perturbation theory, the probability that both atoms are ionized is negligible unless $a_2$ lies on the line joining the origin with $a_1$. The work is a fully time-dependent version of the original analysis proposed by Mott in 1929.

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