Transition decomposition of quantum mechanical evolution

DOI10.1007/S10773-011-0689-YzbMATH Open1228.81196arXiv1101.4180OpenAlexW1988918849MaRDI QIDQ649943FDOQ649943

Authors: Y. Strauss, Jonathan Silman, Shai Machnes, L. Horwitz 

Publication date: 25 November 2011

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

Abstract: We show that the existence of the family of self-adjoint Lyapunov operators introduced in [J. Math. Phys. 51, 022104 (2010)] allows for the decomposition of the state of a quantum mechanical system into two parts: A past time asymptote, which is asymptotic to the state of the system at t goes to minus infinity and vanishes at t goes to plus infinity, and a future time asymptote, which is asymptotic to the state of the system at t goes to plus infinity and vanishes at t goes to minus infinity. We demonstrate the usefulness of this decomposition for the description of resonance phenomena by considering the resonance scattering of a particle off a square barrier potential. We show that the past time asymptote captures the behavior of the resonance. In particular, it exhibits the expected exponential decay law and spatial probability distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4180

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zbMATH Keywords

resonanceLyapunov operatorsemigroup decompositiontransition decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10)

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