Quantum-Classical Dynamics of Wave Fields

Sergi, Alessandro (2006) Quantum-Classical Dynamics of Wave Fields. arXiv:quant-ph/0511229. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

An approach to the quantum-classical mechanics of phase space dependent operators, which has been proposed recently, is remodeled as a formalism for wave fields. Such wave fields obey a system of coupled non-linear equations that can be written by means of a suitable non-Hamiltonian bracket. As an example, the theory is applied to the relaxation dynamics of the spin-boson model. In the adiabatic limit, a good agreement with calculations performed by the operator approach is obtained. Moreover, the theory proposed in this paper can take nonadiabatic effects into account without resorting to surface-hopping approximations. Hence, the results obtained follow qualitatively those of previous surface-hopping calculations and increase by a factor of (at least) two the time length over which nonadiabatic dynamics can be propagated with small statistical errors. Moreover, it is worth to note that the dynamics of quantum-classical wave fields here proposed is a straightforward non-Hamiltonian generalization of the formalism for non-linear quantum mechanics that Weinberg introduced recently.

Item Type:	Other
Additional Information:	Revised version. A numerical study of the adiabatic and nonadiabatic dynamics of the spin-boson model is presented.
Subjects:	M.U.S. - Contributi Scientifici > 01 - Scienze matematiche e informatiche M.U.S. - Contributi Scientifici > 02 - Scienze fisiche
Depositing User:	Dr Alessandro Sergi
Date Deposited:	13 Feb 2007
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2010 11:17
URI:	http://cab.unime.it/mus/id/eprint/399

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• Non-Hamiltonian Quantum Mechanics. Relation between operator and wave schemes of motion. (deposited 02 Dec 2005)
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