Applications of a metaplectic calculus to Schrödinger evolutions with non-self-adjoint generators
Author(s) -
Joe Viola
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journées équations aux dérivées partielles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2118-9366
pISSN - 0752-0360
DOI - 10.5802/jedp.671
Subject(s) - symplectic geometry , mathematics , holomorphic function , quadratic equation , calculus (dental) , stochastic calculus , harmonic oscillator , phase space , wave packet , calculus of variations , time scale calculus , quantum stochastic calculus , algebra over a field , pure mathematics , quantum , mathematical analysis , quantum mechanics , physics , multivariable calculus , geometry , quantum dynamics , medicine , stochastic partial differential equation , dentistry , control engineering , engineering , differential equation , quantum process
We review the calculus of metaplectic operators and shifts in phase space applied to Gaussian wave packets. Using holomorphic extensions of this calculus, one can reduce the L2 theory of evolution equations with non-selfadjoint quadratic generators to symplectic linear algebra. We illustrate these methods through an application to the quantum harmonic oscillator with complex perturbation ix.
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