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Importance of the Wick rotation on Tunnelling
A continuous complex rotation of time t\mapsto t\EXP{-i\theta} is shown to
smooth out the huge fluctuations that characterise chaotic tunnelling. This is
illustrated in the kicked rotor model (quantum standard map) where the period
of the map is complexified: the associated chaotic classical dynamics, if
significant for , is blurred out long before the Wick rotation is
completed (). The influence of resonances on tunnelling rates
weakens exponentially as increases from zero, all the more rapidly the
sharper the fluctuations. The long range fluctuations can therefore be
identified in a deterministic way without ambiguity. When the last ones have
been washed out, tunnelling recovers the (quasi-)integrable exponential
behaviour governed by the action of a regular instanton.Comment: 4 figure
A mechanical model of tunnelling
It is shown how the model which was introduced by Mouchet (2008 Eur. J. Phys.
29 1033) allows one to mimic the quantum tunnelling between two symmetric
one-dimensional wells
Upper and lower bounds for an eigenvalue associated with a positive eigenvector
When an eigenvector of a semi-bounded operator is positive, we show that a
remarkably simple argument allows to obtain upper and lower bounds for its
associated eigenvalue. This theorem is a substantial generalization of
Barta-like inequalities and can be applied to non-necessarily purely quadratic
Hamiltonians. An application for a magnetic Hamiltonian is given and the case
of a discrete Schrodinger operator is also discussed. It is shown how this
approach leads to some explicit bounds on the ground-state energy of a system
made of an arbitrary number of attractive Coulombian particles
Algebraic spectral gaps
For the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation, some real intervals with no
eigenvalues (the spectral gaps) may be obtained rather systematically with a
method proposed by H. Giacomini and A. Mouchet in 2007. The present article
provides some alternative formulation of this method, suggests some possible
generalizations and extensively discusses the higher-dimensional case.Comment: Submitted to ESAIM PROCEEDING
Applications of Noether conservation theorem to Hamiltonian systems
The Noether theorem connecting symmetries and conservation laws can be
applied directly in a Hamiltonian framework without using any intermediate
Lagrangian formulation. This requires a careful discussion about the invariance
of the boundary conditions under a canonical transformation and this paper
proposes to address this issue. Then, the unified treatment of Hamiltonian
systems offered by Noether's approach is illustrated on several examples,
including classical field theory and quantum dynamics.Comment: Version
Variations on chaos in physics: from unpredictability to universal laws
The tremendous popular success of Chaos Theory shares some common points with
the not less fortunate Relativity: they both rely on a misunderstanding.
Indeed, ironically , the scientific meaning of these terms for mathematicians
and physicists is quite opposite to the one most people have in mind and are
attracted by. One may suspect that part of the psychological roots of this
seductive appeal relies in the fact that with these ambiguous names, together
with some superficial clich{\'e}s or slogans immediately related to them ("the
butterfly effect" or "everything is relative"), some have the more or less
secret hope to find matter that would undermine two pillars of science, namely
its ability to predict and to bring out a universal objectivity. Here I propose
to focus on Chaos Theory and illustrate on several examples how, very much like
Relativity, it strengthens the position it seems to contend with at first
sight: the failure of predictability can be overcome and leads to precise,
stable and even more universal predictions.Comment: Convegno "Matematica e Cultura 2015", Mar 2015, Venezia, Ital
Finding gaps in a spectrum
We propose a method for finding gaps in the spectrum of a differential
operator. When applied to the one-dimensional Hamiltonian of the quartic
oscillator, a simple algebraic algorithm is proposed that, step by step,
separates with a remarkable precision all the energies even for a double-well
configuration in a tunnelling regime. Our strategy may be refined and
generalised to a large class of 1d-problems
Normal forms and complex periodic orbits in semiclassical expansions of Hamiltonian systems
Bifurcations of periodic orbits as an external parameter is varied are a
characteristic feature of generic Hamiltonian systems. Meyer's classification
of normal forms provides a powerful tool to understand the structure of phase
space dynamics in their neighborhood. We provide a pedestrian presentation of
this classical theory and extend it by including systematically the periodic
orbits lying in the complex plane on each side of the bifurcation. This allows
for a more coherent and unified treatment of contributions of periodic orbits
in semiclassical expansions. The contribution of complex fixed points is find
to be exponentially small only for a particular type of bifurcation (the
extremal one). In all other cases complex orbits give rise to corrections in
powers of and, unlike the former one, their contribution is hidden in
the ``shadow'' of a real periodic orbit.Comment: better ps figures available at http://www.phys.univ-tours.fr/~mouchet
or on request to [email protected]
Bounding the ground-state energy of a many-body system with the differential method
This paper promotes the differential method as a new fruitful strategy for
estimating a ground-state energy of a many-body system. The case of an
arbitrary number of attractive Coulombian particles is specifically studied and
we make some favorable comparison of the differential method to the existing
approaches that rely on variational principles. A bird's-eye view of the
treatment of more general interactions is also given.Comment: version 1->2 (main revisions): subsection 2.2, equation (18),
footnote 6 have been adde
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