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Darboux-integration of id\rho/dt=[H,f(\rho)]

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v2 Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems

Abstract

A Darboux-type method of solving the nonlinear von Neumann equation iρ˙=[H,f(ρ)]i\dot \rho=[H,f(\rho)], with functions f(ρ)f(\rho) commuting with ρ\rho, is developed. The technique is based on a representation of the nonlinear equation by a compatibility condition for an overdetermined linear system. von Neumann equations with various nonlinearities f(ρ)f(\rho) are found to possess the so-called self-scattering solutions. To illustrate the result we consider the Hamiltonian HH of a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator and f(ρ)=ρq2ρq1f(\rho)=\rho^q-2\rho^{q-1} with arbitary real qq. It is shown that self-scattering solutions possess the same asymptotics for all qq and that different nonlinearities may lead to effectively indistinguishable evolutions. The result may have implications for nonextensive statistics and experimental tests of linearity of quantum mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0005030,
  title  = {Darboux-integration of id\rho/dt=[H,f(\rho)]},
  author = {N. V. Ustinov and S. B. Leble and M. Czachor and M. Kuna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0005030},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

revtex, 5 pages, 2 eps figures, submitted to Phys.Lett.A infinite-dimensional example is added