Suppressed dispersion for a randomly kicked quantum particle in a Dirac comb
Abstract
I study a model for a massive one-dimensional particle in a singular periodic potential that is receiving kicks from a gas. The model is described by a Lindblad equation in which the Hamiltonian is a Schr\"odinger operator with a periodic -potential and the noise has a frictionless form arising in a Brownian limit. I prove that an emergent Markov process in a semi-classical limit governs the momentum distribution in the extended-zone scheme. The main result is a central limit theorem for a time integral of the momentum process, which is closely related to the particle's position. When normalized by , the integral process converges to a time-changed Brownian motion whose rate depends on the momentum process. The scaling contrasts with , which would be expected for the case of a smooth periodic potential or for a comparable classical process. The difference is a wave effect driven by Bragg reflections that occur when the particle's momentum is kicked near the half-spaced reciprocal lattice.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1008.4502,
title = {Suppressed dispersion for a randomly kicked quantum particle in a Dirac comb},
author = {Jeremy Thane Clark},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4502},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
76 pages; I expanded the introduction, corrected errors, restructured the final section, and added appendices