Invariants of the equations of wave mechanics: Rigid rotator and symmetric top

Anderson, Robert L.; Kumei, Sukeyuki; Wulfman, Carl E.

doi:10.1063/1.1666221

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“…The symbol 2n 1,1 (or 3n 1,1 ) denotes the direct sum of two (or three) one-dimension algebras. In addition, g(1,2) and shcr (1,2) are Lie algebras of Galilei and Schrödinger groups in (1+2) dimensional space.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…where only non-trivial commutators are presented. Thus we classify all non-equivalent Lie symmetries which can be admitted by 3d Schrödinger equations (2). Some of them are new, see discussion in the following section.…”

Section: Classification Results For Arbitrary Potentialsmentioning

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“…Symmetries of Schrödinger equation with non-trivial potential were described in paper [2], but only for the case of one spatial variable. Then Boyer extends these results for more physically interesting planar and three dimensional systems.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Maximal "Kinematical" Invariance Group for an Arbitrary Potential Revised

Nikitin¹

2018

Z. mat. fiz. anal. geom.

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The Maximal "Kinematical" Invariance Group for an Arbitrary Potential Revised

Nikitin¹

2018

Z. mat. fiz. anal. geom.

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“…The key ingredients, the maximum kinematical invariance groups of the free particle and harmonic oscillator, were introduced in [3], [4], [25], [30], [49] and [50] (see also [7], [31], [48], [53], [57], [58], [63] and the references therein). We establish a (hidden symmetry revealing) connection with certain Ermakov-type system which allows us to bypass a complexity of the traditional Lie algebra approach [44] (see [17], [41] and the references therein regarding the Ermakov equation).…”

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On a hidden symmetry of quantum harmonic oscillators

Lopez

Suslov

Vega-Guzmán

2013

Journal of Difference Equations and Applications

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Abstract. We consider a six-parameter family of the square integrable wave functions for the simple harmonic oscillator, which cannot be obtained by the standard separation of variables. They are given by the action of the corresponding maximal kinematical invariance group on the standard solutions. In addition, the phase space oscillations of the electron position and linear momentum probability distributions are computer animated and some possible applications are briefly discussed. A visualization of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is presented.The purpose of this Letter is to elaborate on a "missing" class of solutions to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the simple harmonic oscillator in one dimension. We also provide an interesting computer-animated feature of these solutions -the phase space oscillations of the electron density and the corresponding probability distribution of the particle linear momentum. As a result, a dynamic visualization of the fundamental Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle [27] is given [45], [62]. Symmetry and Hidden SolutionsThe time-dependent Schrödinger equation for the simple harmonic oscillator,has the following six-parameter family of square integrable solutionswhere H n (x) are the Hermite polynomials [51] and On the other hand, the "dynamic harmonic oscillator states" (1.2)-(1.9) are eigenfunctions,of the time-dependent quadratic invariant,with the required operator identity [15], [54]:(1.12)Here, the time-dependent annihilation a (t) and creation a † (t) operators are explicitly given bywith p = i −1 ∂/∂x in terms of our solutions (1.4)-(1.9). These operators satisfy the canonical commutation relation, 14) and the oscillator-type spectrum (1.10) of the dynamic invariant E can be obtained in a standard way by using the Heisenberg-Weyl algebra of the rasing and lowering operators (a "second quantization" [1], [42], the Fock states): Here, ψ n (x, t) = e i(2n+1)γ(t) Ψ n (x, t) (1.16) is the relation to the wave functions (1.2) with ϕ n (t) = − (2n + 1) [68] and the references therein) have attracted substantial attention over the years because of their great importance in many advanced quantum problems. Examples are coherent and squeezed states, uncertainty relations, Berry's phase, quantization of mechanical systems and Hamiltonian cosmology. More applications include, but are not limited to charged particle traps and motion in uniform magnetic fields, molecular spectroscopy and polyatomic molecules in varying external fields, crystals through which an electron is passing and exciting the oscillator modes, and other mode interactions with external fields. Quadratic Hamiltonians have particular applications in quantum electrodynamics because the electromagnetic field can be represented as a set of generalized driven harmonic oscillators [13], [20].The maximal kinematical invariance group of the simple harmonic oscillator [50] provides the six-parameter family of solutions, namely (1.2) and (1.3)-(1.9), for an arbitrary choice of the initial data (of the corresp...

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“…In this work, we have applied the Anderson-Kumei-Wulfman method [5][6][7][8] to extract continuous symmetries of general second-order linear ordinary differential equation.…”

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confidence: 99%