Published May 2012
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Journal article
Time-dependent coupled harmonic oscillators
Creators
- 1. Departamento de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Ceara, Campus do PICI, Caixa Postal 6030, 60455-760 Fortaleza, CE (Brazil)
Description
In this paper we use a canonical and a unitary transformation along with the Lewis and Riesenfeld invariant method to obtain the quantum states of a general system of two time-dependent statically coupled harmonic oscillators. The wave function obtained is written in terms of a c-number quantity, which is solution of the Milne-Pinney equation. We consider three different systems of time-dependent coupled oscillators, and for each one we solve the respective Milne-Pinney equation and discuss how the uncertainty product evolves with time.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.4709748;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal Volume
- 53
- Journal Issue
- 5
- Journal Page Range
- p. 052101-052101.10
- ISSN
- 0022-2488
- CODEN
- JMAPAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 43080611
- Subject category
- S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
- Descriptors DEI
- EQUATIONS; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; QUANTUM STATES; TIME DEPENDENCE; TRANSFORMATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- FUNCTIONS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2012 American Institute of Physics