Localization of quantum wave packets

Physics – Mathematical Physics

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10.1088/1751-8113/41/3/035307

We study the semiclassical propagation of squeezed Gau{\ss}ian states. We do so by considering the propagation theorem introduced by Combescure and Robert \cite{CR97} approximating the evolution generated by the Weyl-quantization of symbols $H$. We examine the particular case when the Hessian $H^{\prime\prime}(X_{t})$ evaluated at the corresponding solution $X_{t}$ of Hamilton's equations of motion is periodic in time. Under this assumption, we show that the width of the wave packet can remain small up to the Ehrenfest time. We also determine conditions for ``classical revivals'' in that case. More generally, we may define recurrences of the initial width. Some of these results include the case of unbounded classical motion. In the classically unstable case we recover an exponential spreading of the wave packet as in \cite{CR97}.

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