Hamiltonian approach for wave packet dynamics: beyond Gaussian wave functions

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.04.054zbMATH Open1231.81032arXiv0806.4170OpenAlexW2063291704MaRDI QIDQ662913FDOQ662913

Eric R. Bittner, Andrey Pereverzev

Publication date: 13 February 2012

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It is well known that the Gaussian wave packet dynamics can be written in terms of Hamilton equations in the extended phase space that is twice as large as in the corresponding classical system. We construct several generalizations of this approach that include non-Gausssian wave packets. These generalizations lead to the further extension of the phase space while retaining the Hamilton structure of the equations of motion. We compare the Gaussian dynamics with these non-Gaussian extensions for a particle with the quartic potential.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4170

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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• Geometry of the time-dependent variational principle in quantum mechanics
• Semiclassical mechanics with molecular applications

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