The quantum roll in d-dimensions and the large-d expansion

Details The quantum roll in d-dimensions and the large-d expansion The quantum roll in d-dimensions and the large-d expansion

1998-08-05

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9808234v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

13 pages, 8 figures

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We investigate the quantum roll for a particle in a $d$-dimensional ``Mexican hat'' potential in quantum mechanics, comparing numerical simulations in $d$-dimensions with the results of a large-$d$ expansion, up to order $1/d$, of the coupled closed time path (CTP) Green's function equations, as well as to a post-Gaussian variational approximation in $d$-dimensions. The quantum roll problem for a set of $N$ coupled oscillators is equivalent to a $(d=N)$-dimensional spherically symmetric quantum mechanics problem. For this problem the large-N expansion is equivalent to an expansion in $1/d$ where $d$ is the number of dimensions. We use the Schwinger-Mahanthappa-Keldysh CTP formalism to determine the causal update equations to order $1/d$. We also study the quantum fluctuations $$ as a function of time and find that the $1/d$ corrections improve the agreement with numerical simulations at short times (over one or two oscillations) but beyond two oscillations, the approximation fails to correspond to a positive probability function. Using numerical methods, we also study how the long time behavior of the motion changes from its asymptotic ($d \to \infty$) harmonic behavior as we reduce $d$.

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