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Two quantization approaches to the Bateman oscillator model

Quantum Physics 2019-10-21 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider two quantization approaches to the Bateman oscillator model. One is Feshbach-Tikochinsky's quantization approach reformulated concisely without invoking the SU(1,1){\mathit{SU}(1,1)} Lie algebra, and the other is the imaginary-scaling quantization approach developed originally for the Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator model. The latter approach overcomes the problem of unbounded-below energy spectrum that is encountered in the former approach. In both the approaches, the positive-definiteness of the squared-norms of the Hamiltonian eigenvectors is ensured. Unlike Feshbach-Tikochinsky's quantization approach, the imaginary-scaling quantization approach allows to have stable states in addition to decaying and growing states.

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@article{arxiv.1807.04403,
  title  = {Two quantization approaches to the Bateman oscillator model},
  author = {Shinichi Deguchi and Yuki Fujiwara and Kunihiko Nakano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04403},
  year   = {2019}
}

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23 pages, final version published in Annals of Physics

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