1. Physics Department, Capital Normal University,
Beijing 100037, China
;2. Physics Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07201, USA
;3. Physics Department, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Abstract:
The invariant, propagator, and wavefunction for a variable frequency harmonic oscillator in an electromagnetic field are obtained by making a specific coordinate transformation and by using the method of phase space path integral method. The probability amplitudes for a dissipative harmonic oscillator in the time varying electric field E(t) = E0 sin(Ωt) are obtained.