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Time-Energy coherent states and adiabatic scattering

Mathematical Physics 2015-06-26 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

Coherent states in the time-energy plane provide a natural basis to study adiabatic scattering. We relate the (diagonal) matrix elements of the scattering matrix in this basis with the frozen on-shell scattering data. We describe an exactly solvable model, and show that the error in the frozen data cannot be estimated by the Wigner time delay alone. We introduce the notion of energy shift, a conjugate of Wigner time delay, and show that for incoming state ρ(H0)\rho(H_0) the energy shift determines the outgoing state.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0202021,
  title  = {Time-Energy coherent states and adiabatic scattering},
  author = {J. E. Avron and A. Elgart and G. M. Graf and L. Sadun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0202021},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 1 figure

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