Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2005-10-30
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
RevTex, 6 pages, summary included
Scientific paper
We consider a charged particle which is driven by a time-dependent flux threading a circular ring system. Various approaches including classical treatment, Fourier expansion method, time-evolution method, and Lewis-Riesenfeld method are used and compared to solve the time-dependent problem. By properly managing the boundary condition of the system, a time-dependent wave function of the charged particle can be obtained by using a non-Hermitian time-dependent invariant, which is a specific linear combination of initial angular-momentum and azimuthal-angle operators. The eigenfunction of the linear invariant can be realized as a Gaussian-type wave packet with a peak moving along the classical angular trajectory, while the distribution of the wave packet is determined by the ratio of the coefficient of the initial angle to that of the initial canonical angular momentum. In this topologically nontrivial system, we find that although the classical trajectory and angular momentum can determine the motion of the wave packet; however, the peak position is no longer an expectation value of the angle operator. Therefore, in such a system, the Ehrenfest theorem is not directly applicable.
Luan Pi-Gang
Tang Chi-Shung
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