Time-dependent driven anharmonic oscillator and adiabaticity

Hyeong-Chan Kim and Jae Hyung Yee
Phys. Rev. A 66, 032117 – Published 27 September 2002
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Abstract

We use the Liouville–von Neumann approach to study the dynamics and the adiabaticity of a time-dependent driven anharmonic oscillator as an example of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics. We show that the adiabaticity is minimally broken in the sense that a Gaussian wave packet at the past infinity evolves to coherent states; however slowly the potential changes, its coherence factor is of the order of the coupling. We also show that the dynamics are governed by an equation of motion similar to the Kepler motion, which satisfies angular momentum conservation.

  • Received 17 April 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.66.032117

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Hyeong-Chan Kim1,* and Jae Hyung Yee1,2,†

  • 1Institute of Basic Science, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea
  • 2Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea

  • *Email address: hckim@phya.yonsei.ac.kr
  • Email address: jhyee@phya.yonsei.ac.kr

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Vol. 66, Iss. 3 — September 2002

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