A Solvable Problem for the Stochastic Schrödinger Equation in Two Dimensions

Katherine A. Kime, Austin Blaquière

Alberto Barchielli, Matteo Gregoratti

V. P. Belavkin

We prove that a single-jump quantum stochastic unitary evolution is equivalent to a Dirac boundary value problem on the half line in one extra dimension. It is shown that this exactly solvable model can be obtained from a Schrödinger boundary value problem for a positive relativistic Hamiltonian in the half-line as the inductive ultrarelativistic limit, correspondent to the input flow of Dirac particles with asymptotically infinite momenta. Thus the problem of stochastic approximation is reduced to the to the quantum-mechanical boundary value problem in the extra dimension. The question of microscopic time reversibility is also studied for this paper.

Crispin W. Gardiner, P. Zoller

Avinash Khare, Rajat K. Bhaduri

We show that the list of analytically solvable potentials in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics can be considerably enlarged. In particular, we show that those noncentral potentials for which the Schrödinger equation is separable are analytically solvable provided the separated problem for each of the coordinates belongs to the class of exactly solvable one dimensional problems. As an illustration, we discuss in detail two examples, one in two and the other in three dimensions. A list of analytically solvable noncentral potentials in spherical polar coordinates is also given. Extension of these ideas to other standard orthogonal coordinate systems as well as to higher dimensions is straightforward.

Wilfried Grecksch, Hannelore Lisei