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View SchemaUnitary relations in time-dependent harmonic oscillators
| Authors | Dae-Yup Song |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9812038 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9812038 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/32/18/318 |
| Journal | J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 32 (1999) 3449-3456 |
Abstract
For a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent (positive) mass and frequency, an unitary operator is shown to transform the quantum states of the system to those of a harmonic oscillator system of unit mass and time-dependent frequency, as well as operators. For a driven harmonic oscillator, it is also shown that, there are unitary transformations which give the driven system from the system of same mass and frequency without driving force. The transformation for a driven oscillator depends on the solution of classical equation of motion of the driven system. These transformations, thus, give a simple way of finding exact wave functions of a driven harmonic oscillator system, provided the quantum states of the corresponding system of unit mass are given.
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