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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

The sojourn time of the inverted harmonic oscillator on the noncommutative plane

Guangjie Guo, Zhongzhou Ren, Ju Guo-Xing, Chao‐Yun Long

Published Sep 28, 2011• 6 citations
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Abstract

The sojourn time of the Gaussian wavepacket that is stationed at the center of the inverted harmonic oscillator is investigated on the noncommutative plane in detail. In ordinary commutative space quantum mechanics, the sojourn time of the Gaussian wavepacket is always a monotonically decreasing function of the curvature parameter ω of the potential. However, in this paper, we find that the spatial noncommutativity makes the sojourn time a concave function of ω with a minimum at an inflection point ω0. Furthermore, if ω is larger than a certain critical value the sojourn time will become infinity. Thus, the ordinary intuitive physical picture about the relation between the sojourn time and the shape of the inverted oscillator potential is changed when the spatial noncommutativity is considered.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8113/44/42/425301

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The time evolution of a time-dependent inverted harmonic oscillator (TDIHO) of arbitrary dimensions is investigated. Using the algebraic method, we obtain the exact orthogonal basis of solutions of a TDIHO in which the dimensionality d and angular momentum l appear as parameters, and also discuss its properties. With the wavepacket as the initial state, the general expressions of sojourn time of a TDIHO are given. The method is also applied to the inverted Caldirola–Kanai harmonic oscillator. The results show that the sojourn time appears as an increasing function of the dissipation parameter in arbitrary dimensions, but a decreasing function of the dimensionality.
We treat the quantum dynamics of a harmonic oscillator as well as its inverted counterpart in the Schrödinger picture. Generally in the most papers of the literature, the inverted harmonic oscillator is formally obtained from the harmonic oscillator by the replacement of ω to iω, this leads to unbounded eigenvectors. This explicitly demonstrates that there are some unclear points involved in redefining the variables in the harmonic oscillator inversion. To remedy this situation, we introduce a scaling operator (Dyson transformation) by connecting the inverted harmonic oscillator to an anti-PT-symmetric harmonic oscillator, we obtain the standard quasi-Hermiticity relation which would ensure the time invariance of the eigenfunction's norm. We give a complete description for the eigenproblem. We show that the wavefunctions for this system are normalized in the sense of the pseudo-scalar product. A Gaussian wave packet of the inverted oscillator is investigated by using the ladder operators method. This wave packet is found to be associated with the generalized coherent state that can be crucially utilized for investigating the mean values of the space and momentum operators. We find that these mean values reproduce the classical motion.
Appearance of adiabatic geometric phase shift in the context of noncommutative quantum mechanics is studied using an exactly solvable model of a two-dimensional simple harmonic oscillator in the Moyal plane, where momentum noncommutativity are also considered along with spatial noncommutativity. For that we introduce a modified form of Bopp's shift, that bridges the noncommutative phase-space operators with their effective commutative counterparts, having their dependence on the noncommutative parameters, and study the adiabatic evolution in the Heisenberg picture. An explicit expression for the geometric phase shift under adiabatic approximation is then found without using any perturbative technique. Lastly, this phase is found to be related to Hannay's angle of a classically analogous system, by studying the evolution of the coherent state of this system.
We consider Feynman's path integral approach to quantum mechanics with a noncommutativity in position and momentum sectors of the phase space. We show that a quantum-mechanical system with this kind of noncommutativity is equivalent to the another one with usual commutative coordinates and momenta. We found connection between quadratic classical Hamiltonians, as well as Lagrangians, in their commutative and noncommutative regimes. The general procedure to compute Feynman's path integral on this noncommutative phase space with quadratic Lagrangians (Hamiltonians) is presented. Using this approach, a particle in a constant field, ordinary and inverted harmonic oscillators are elaborated in detail.
We discuss some aspects of the time picture of tunneling for open quantum systems described by non-Hermitian (NH) Hamiltonians. The concept of sojourn time for such systems is introduced in the framework of the biorthonormal formalism. Due to the various definitions of probability density in the non-Hermitian case, we get three different sojourn times, two real and one complex. We consider as model of a dissipative NH system the complex, generalized parametric oscillator, for which we derive the exact expressions of the three sojourn times in terms of the Wei-Norman characteristic functions entering the non-unitary evolution operators. The special case of the inverted Caldirola-Kanai oscillator with complex friction parameter is investigated for an initial extended wavepacket. We also discuss the Landau-Zener-like transitions of the NH parametric oscillator, i.e. the dissipative tunneling through a dynamical barrier due to the perturbative effect of the damping.