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Long time growth of Sobolev norms in time dependent semiclassical anharmonic oscillators

Analysis of PDEs 2019-04-09 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the semiclassical Schr\"odinger equation on Rd\mathbb R^d given by itψ=(22Δ+Wl(x))ψ+V(t,x)ψ,\mathrm{i} \hbar \partial_t \psi = \left(-\frac{\hbar^2}{2} \Delta + W_l(x) \right)\psi + V(t,x)\psi , where WlW_l is an anharmonic trapping of the form Wl(x)=12lj=1dxj2lW_l(x)= \frac{1}{2l}\sum_{j=1}^d x_j^{2l}, l2l\geq 2 is an integer and \hbar is a semiclassical small parameter. We construct a smooth potential V(t,x)V(t,x), bounded in time with its derivatives, and an initial datum such that the Sobolev norms of the solution grow at a logarithmic speed for all times of order log12(1)\log^{\frac12}(\hbar^{-1}). The proof relies on two ingredients: first we construct an unbounded solution to a forced mechanical anharmonic oscillator, then we exploit semiclassical approximation with coherent states to obtain growth of Sobolev norms for the quantum system which are valid for semiclassical time scales.

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@article{arxiv.1904.03703,
  title  = {Long time growth of Sobolev norms in time dependent semiclassical anharmonic oscillators},
  author = {Emanuele Haus and Alberto Maspero},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03703},
  year   = {2019}
}

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19 pages