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Title: Extended space expectation values in quantum dynamical system evolutions

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4897873· OSTI ID:22307959
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  1. Istanbul Technical University, Informatics Institute, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul (Turkey)

The time variant power series expansion for the expectation value of a given quantum dynamical operator is well-known and well-investigated issue in quantum dynamics. However, depending on the operator and Hamiltonian singularities this expansion either may not exist or may not converge for all time instances except the beginning of the evolution. This work focuses on this issue and seeks certain cures for the negativities. We work in the extended space obtained by adding all images of the initial wave function under the system Hamiltonian’s positive integer powers. This requires the introduction of certain appropriately defined weight operators. The resulting better convergence in the temporal power series urges us to call the new defined entities “extended space expectation values” even though they are constructed over certain weight operators and are somehow pseudo expectation values.

OSTI ID:
22307959
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1618, Issue 1; Conference: ICCMSE 2014: International conference on computational methods in science and engineering 2014, Athens (Greece), 4-7 Apr 2014; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English