Symplectic semiclassical wave packet dynamics
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Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)
Abstract: The paper gives a symplectic-geometric account of semiclassical Gaussian wave packet dynamics. We employ geometric techniques to "strip away" the symplectic structure behind the time-dependent Schr"odinger equation and incorporate it into semiclassical wave packet dynamics. We show that the Gaussian wave packet dynamics is a Hamiltonian system with respect to the symplectic structure, apply the theory of symplectic reduction and reconstruction to the dynamics, and discuss dynamic and geometric phases in semiclassical mechanics. A simple harmonic oscillator example is worked out to illustrate the results: We show that the reduced semiclassical harmonic oscillator dynamics is completely integrable by finding the action--angle coordinates for the system, and calculate the associated dynamic and geometric phases explicitly. We also propose an asymptotic approximation of the potential term that provides a practical semiclassical correction term to the approximation by Heller. Numerical results for a simple one-dimensional example show that the semiclassical correction term realizes a semiclassical tunneling.
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