Physical Review A

Propagators for driven coupled harmonic oscillators

Kyu-Hwang Yeon, Chung‐In Um, Woo-Hyung Kahng, Thomas F. George

Published Dec 1, 1988• 37 citations

Abstract

Propagators for coupled and driven coupled harmonic oscillators are evaluated exactly by the path-integral method. The propagators for coupled harmonic oscillators are used to obtain explicitly the energy expectation values.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.38.6224

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