Integrability and nonintegrability of quantum systems. II. Dynamics in quantum phase space

Wei-Min Zhang, Da Hsuan Feng, and Jian-Min Yuan
Phys. Rev. A 42, 7125 – Published 1 December 1990
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Abstract

Based on the concepts of integrability and nonintegrability of a quantum system presented in a previous paper [Zhang, Feng, Yuan, and Wang, Phys. Rev. A 40, 438 (1989)], a realization of the dynamics in the quantum phase space is now presented. For a quantum system with dynamical group scrG and in one of its unitary irreducible-representation carrier spaces gerhΛ, the quantum phase space is a 2MΛ-dimensional topological space, where MΛ is the quantum-dynamical degrees of freedom. This quantum phase space is isomorphic to a coset space scrG/scrH via the unitary exponential mapping of the elementary excitation operator subspace of scrg (algebra of scrG), where scrH (⊂scrG) is the maximal stability subgroup of a fixed state in gerhΛ. The phase-space representation of the system is realized on scrG/scrH, and its classical analogy can be obtained naturally. It is also shown that there is consistency between quantum and classical integrability. Finally, a general algorithm for seeking the manifestation of ‘‘quantum chaos’’ via the classical analogy is provided. Illustrations of this formulation in several important quantum systems are presented.

  • Received 18 April 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.42.7125

©1990 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Wei-Min Zhang

  • Department of Physics, FM-15, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
  • Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Da Hsuan Feng and Jian-Min Yuan

  • Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

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Vol. 42, Iss. 12 — December 1990

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