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About Quantum Revivals, Quantum Fidelity, A semiclassical Approach
In this paper we develop the topics of Quantum Recurrences and of Quantum
Fidelity which have attracted great interest in recent years. The return
probability is given by the square modulus of the overlap between a given
initial wavepacket and the corresponding evolved one; quantum recurrences in
time can be observed if this overlap is unity. We provide some conditions under
which this is semiclassically achieved taking as initial wavepacket a coherent
state located on a closed orbit of the corresponding classical motion. The
"quantum fidelity" (or Loschmidt Echo) is the square modulus of the overlap of
an evoloved quantum state with the same evoloved by a slightly perturbed
Hamiltonian. Its decrease in time measures the sensitivity of Quantum Evolution
with respect to small perturbations. It is believed to have significantly
different behavior in time when the underlying classical motion is chaotic or
regular. Starting with suitable initial quantum states, we develop a
semiclassical estimate of this quantum fidelity in the Linear Response
framework (appropriate for the small perturbation regime), assuming some
ergodicity conditions on the corresponding classical motion
The quantum fidelity for the time-dependent singular quantum oscillator
In this paper we perform an exact study of ``Quantum Fidelity'' (also called
Loschmidt Echo) for the time-periodic quantum Harmonic Oscillator of
Hamiltonian : when compared with the quantum evolution
induced by (), in the case where is a -periodic
function and a real constant. The reference (initial) state is taken to be
an arbitrary ``generalized coherent state'' in the sense of Perelomov. We show
that, starting with a quadratic decrease in time in the neighborhood of ,
this quantum fidelity may recur to its initial value 1 at an infinite sequence
of times {}. We discuss the result when the classical motion induced by
Hamiltonian is assumed to be stable versus unstable. A
beautiful relationship between the quantum and the classical fidelity is also
demonstrated