A hydrodynamic approach to multidimensional dissipation-based Schrödinger models from quantum Fokker-Planck dynamics

In this paper we are concerned with the modeling of quantum dissipation and diffusion effects at the level of the multidimensional Schrödinger equation. Our starting point is the quantum Fokker-Planck master equation describing dissipative interactions (of mass and energy) of the particle ensemble with a thermal bath in thermodynamic equilibrium. When considering its associated hydrodynamic system, which rules the temporal evolution of the local density and the mean fluid-flow velocity, and imposing physically admissible closure relations, these equations can be seen as describing the fluid-mechanical evolution of the macroscopic amplitude and phase of an envelope wavefunction, thus giving rise to a family of dissipative Schrödinger equations of logarithmic type whose steady state and radial dynamics are analyzed. Also, numerical comparison with the exactly solvable models for the free particle and the damped harmonic oscillator is performed.     

Quantization in classical mechanics and its relation to the Bohmian Ψ-field

Based on the Chetaev theorem on stable dynamical trajectories in the presence of dissipative forces, we obtain the generalized condition for stability of Hamilton systems in the form of the Schrödinger equation.It is shown that the energy of dissipative forces, which generate the Chetaev generalized condition of stability, coincides exactly with the Bohm “quantum” potential. Within the frame-work of Bohmian quantum mechanics supplemented by the generalized Chetaev theorem and on the basis of the principle of least action for dissipative forces, we show that the squared amplitude of a wave function in the Schrödinger equation is equivalent semantically and syntactically to the probability density function for the number of particle trajectories, relative to which the velocity and the position of the particle are not hidden parameters. The conditions for the correctness of trajectory interpretation of quantum mechanics are discussed.     

Nonlinear von neumann equations for quantum dissipative systems

For pure states nonlinear Schrödinger equations, the so-called Schrödinger-Langevin equations are well-known to model quantum dissipative systems of the Langevin type. For mixtures it is shown that these wave equations do not extend to master equations, but to corresponding nonlinear von Neumann equations. Solutions for the damped harmonic oscillator are discussed.Supported by Deutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftSupported by Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung in Österreich, Project no. 3569     

On the quantum motion of a generalized time-dependent forced harmonic oscillator

In this work, we use linear invariants and the dynamical invariant method to obtain exact solutions of the Schrödinger equation for the generalized time-dependent forced harmonic oscillator in terms of solutions of a second order ordinary differential equation that describes the amplitude of the classical unforced damped oscillator. In addition, we construct Gaussian wave packet solutions and calculate the fluctuations in coordinate and momentum as well as the quantum correlations between coordinate and momentum. It is shown that the width of the Gaussian packet, fluctuations and correlations do not depend on the external force. As a particular case, we consider the forced Caldirola-Kanai oscillator.     

Application of the complex point source method to the Schrödinger equation

The paraxial wave equation is a reduced form of the Helmholtz equation. Its solutions can be directly obtained from the solutions of the Helmholtz equation by using the method of complex point source. We applied the same logic to quantum mechanics, because the Schrödinger equation is parabolic in nature as the paraxial wave equation. We defined a differential equation, which is analogous to the Helmholtz equation for quantum mechanics and derived the solutions of the Schrödinger equation by taking into account the solutions of this equation with the method of complex point source. The method is applied to the problem of diffraction of matter waves by a shutter.     

Trajectory approach to the Schrödinger–Langevin equation with linear dissipation for ground states

The Schrödinger–Langevin equation with linear dissipation is integrated by propagating an ensemble of Bohmian trajectories for the ground state of quantum systems. Substituting the wave function expressed in terms of the complex action into the Schrödinger–Langevin equation yields the complex quantum Hamilton–Jacobi equation with linear dissipation. We transform this equation into the arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian version with the grid velocity matching the flow velocity of the probability fluid. The resulting equation is simultaneously integrated with the trajectory guidance equation. Then, the computational method is applied to the harmonic oscillator, the double well potential, and the ground vibrational state of methyl iodide. The excellent agreement between the computational and the exact results for the ground state energies and wave functions shows that this study provides a synthetic trajectory approach to the ground state of quantum systems.     

Stability of plane-wave solutions of a dissipative generalization of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

The modulational instability of perturbed plane-wave solutions of the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation is examined in the presence of three forms of dissipation. We present two families of decreasing-in-magnitude plane-wave solutions to this dissipative NLS equation. We establish that all such solutions that have no spatial dependence are linearly stable, though some perturbations may grow a finite amount. Further, we establish that all such solutions that have spatial dependence are linearly unstable if a certain form of dissipation is present.     

EXACT SOLUTIONS TO THE N-BODY SCHRÖDINGER EQUATION FOR THE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR

The exact solutions to the N-body Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillator are presented analytically. The permutational symmetry of the solutions for the identical three-body system of the harmonic oscillator are discussed in some detail.     

Bohmian trajectories of Airy packets

The discovery of Berry and Balazs in 1979 that the free-particle Schrödinger equation allows a non-dispersive and accelerating Airy-packet solution has taken the folklore of quantum mechanics by surprise. Over the years, this intriguing class of wave packets has sparked enormous theoretical and experimental activities in related areas of optics and atom physics. Within the Bohmian mechanics framework, we present new features of Airy wave packet solutions to Schrödinger equation with time-dependent quadratic potentials. In particular, we provide some insights to the problem by calculating the corresponding Bohmian trajectories. It is shown that by using general space–time transformations, these trajectories can display a unique variety of cases depending upon the initial position of the individual particle in the Airy wave packet. Further, we report here a myriad of nontrivial Bohmian trajectories associated to the Airy wave packet. These new features are worth introducing to the subject’s theoretical folklore in light of the fact that the evolution of a quantum mechanical Airy wave packet governed by the Schrödinger equation is analogous to the propagation of a finite energy Airy beam satisfying the paraxial equation. Numerous experimental configurations of optics and atom physics have shown that the dynamics of Airy beams depends significantly on initial parameters and configurations of the experimental set-up.     

Accurate analytic presentation of solution of the Schrödinger equation with arbitrary physical potential: Excited states

The quasilinearization method (QLM) is used to approximate analytically, both the ground state and the excited state solutions of the Schrödinger equation for arbitrary potentials. The procedure of approximation was demonstrated on examples of a few often used physical potentials such as the quartic anharmonic oscillator, the Yukawa and the spiked harmonic oscillator potentials. The accurate analytic expressions for the ground and excited state energies and wave functions were presented. These high-precision approximate analytic representations are obtained by first casting the Schrödinger equation into a nonlinear Riccati form and then solving that nonlinear equation analytically in the first QLM iteration. In the QLM the nonlinear differential equation is treated by approximating the nonlinear terms by a sequence of linear expressions. The QLM is iterative but not perturbative and gives stable solutions to nonlinear problems without depending on the existence of a smallness parameter. The method provides final and reasonable results for both small and large values of the coupling constant and is able to handle even super singular potentials for which each term of the perturbation theory is infinite and the perturbation expansion does not exist. The choice of zero iteration is based on general features of solutions near the boundaries. In order to estimate the accuracy of the QLM solutions, the exact numerical solutions were found as well. The first QLM iterate given by analytic expression allows to estimate analytically the role of different parameters and the influence of their variation on different characteristics of the relevant quantum systems.     

Probability Current and Trajectory Representation

A unified form for real and complex wave functions is proposed for the stationary case, and the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation is derived in the three-dimensional space. The difficulties which appear in Bohm's theory like the vanishing value of the conjugate momentum in the real wave function case are surmounted. In one dimension, a new form of the general solution of the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi equation leading straightforwardly to the general form of the Schrödinger wave function is proposed. For unbound states, it is shown that the invariance of the reduced action under a dilatation plus a rotation of the wave function in the complex space implies that microstates do not appear. For bound states, it is shown that some freedom subsists and gives rise to the manifestation of microstates not detected by the Schrödinger wave function.     

Approach to the quantum evolution for underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped driven harmonic oscillators using unitary transformation

Exact solution of the Schrödinger equation is derived for underdamped, critically damped, and overdamped harmonic oscillators with a driving force. A unitary operator transforming Hamiltonian into a simple form is introduced. The transformed Hamiltonian, represented in terms of a modified frequency ω, is identical with the Hamiltonian of the standard harmonic oscillator for the underdamped oscillator, with the Hamiltonian of a free particle for the critically damped oscillator, and with the Hamiltonian of a system with a harmonic parabolic potential for the overdamped oscillator. The eigenvalues of underdamped oscillator are discrete while those of the critically damped and the overdamped oscillators are continuous.     

Bessel solitary waves in strongly nonlocal nonlinear media with distributed parameters

Bessel solitary wave solutions to a two-dimensional strongly nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients are obtained. Bessel solitary wave solutions have unique characteristics compared with Gaussian solitary wave solutions, Laguerre-Gaussian solitary wave solutions, and Hermite-Gaussian solitary wave solutions. The generalized two-dimensional nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients is investigated for the first time to our knowledge.     

Stochastic Quantization of Time-Dependent Systems by the Haba and Kleinert Method

The stochastic quantization method recently developed by Haba and Kleinert is extended to non-autonomous mechanical systems, in the case of the time-dependent harmonic oscillator. In comparison with the autonomous case, the quantization procedure involves the solution of a nonlinear, auxiliary equation. Using a rescaling transformation, the Schrödinger equation for the time-dependent harmonic oscillator is obtained after averaging of a classical stochastic differential equation.     

Exact Solutions with Arbitrary Permutation Symmetry in a Three-Body Harmonic Oscillator

The exact solutions with arbitrary permutation symmetry to the threebody Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillator are presented completely.     

具有色散系数的(2+1)维非线性Schrödinger方程的有理解和空间孤子

非线性Schrödinger方程是物理学中具有广泛应用的非线性模型之一. 本文采用相似变换, 将具有色散系数的(2+1)维非线性Schrödinger方程简化成熟知的Schrödinger方程, 进而得到原方程的有理解和一些空间孤子.     

Solving a two-electron quantum dot model in terms of polynomial solutions of a Biconfluent Heun equation

The effects on the non-relativistic dynamics of a system compound by two electrons interacting by a Coulomb potential and with an external harmonic oscillator potential, confined to move in a two dimensional Euclidean space, are investigated. In particular, it is shown that it is possible to determine exactly and in a closed form a finite portion of the energy spectrum and the associated eigenfunctions for the Schrödinger equation describing the relative motion of the electrons, by putting it into the form of a biconfluent Heun equation. In the same framework, another set of solutions of this type can be straightforwardly obtained for the case when the two electrons are submitted also to an external constant magnetic field.     

Quantum evolution and classical flow in complex phase space

For a class of holomorphic perturbations of the harmonic oscillator inn degrees of freedom a local solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in the Bargmann representation is constructed which pointwise propagates, to leading order in , along the classical trajectories in complex phase space.     

Rogue wave solutions for the coupled cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equations in nonlinear optics

A generalized Darboux transformation for the coupled cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation is constructed by the Darboux matrix method. As applications, the Nth-order rogue wave solutions of the coupled cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation have been obtained. In particular, the dynamics of the general first- and second-order rogue waves are discussed and illustrated through some figures.     

Nonlinear wave mechanics,information theory,and thermodynamics

A logarithmic nonlinear term is introduced in the Schrödinger wave equation, and a physical justification and interpretation are provided within the context of information theory and thermodynamics. From the resulting nonlinear Schrödinger equation for a system at absolute temperatureT>0, the energy equivalence,kT 1n 2, of a bit of information is derived.