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We present a Lie algebraic approach to a Hamiltonian class covering driven, parametric quantum harmonic oscillators where the parameter set -- mass, frequency, driving strength, and parametric pumping -- is time-dependent. Our…

In this article, we formulate the study of the unitary time evolution of systems consisting of an infinite number of uncoupled time-dependent harmonic oscillators in mathematically rigorous terms. We base this analysis on the theory of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Daniel Gómez Vergel , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

The generalized time-dependent harmonic oscillator is studied. Though several approaches to the solution of this model have been available, yet a new approach is presented here, which is very suitable for the study of cyclic solutions and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Qiong-Gui Lin

Based on the Gaussian wave packet solution for the harmonic oscillator and the corresponding creation and annihilation operators, a generalization is presented that also applies for wave packets with time-dependent width as they occur for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-21 Octavio Castaños , Dieter Schuch , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

We point out a rather effective approach for solving the time-dependent harmonic oscillator $\ddot q=-\omega^2 q$ under various regularity assumptions. Where $\omega(t )$ is $C^1$ this is reduced to Hamilton equation for the angle variable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-20 Gaetano Fiore

Recent interest in the "memory effect" prompted us to revisit the relation of gravitational aves and oscillators. 50 years ago Niederer [1] found that an isotropic harmonic oscillator with a constant frequency can be mapped onto a free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-20 P. -M. Zhang , Q. -L. Zhao , P. A. Horvathy

In this paper, using the Lewis-Riesenfeld method, we determine the explicit form of the wavefunctions of one- and three-dimensional harmonic oscillators with time-dependent mass and frequency within the framework of the Dunkl derivative,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 A. Benchikha , B. Khantoul , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

We study the time evolution for the quantum harmonic oscillator subjected to a sudden change of frequency. It is based on an approximate analytic solution to the time dependent Ermakov equation for a step function. This approach allows for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-13 H. Moya-Cessa , M. Fernandez-Guasti

We prove that the decay of the eigenfunctions of harmonic oscillators, uniform electric or magnetic fields is not stable under 0-order complex perturbations, even if bounded, of these Hamiltonians, in the sense that we can produce solutions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Biagio Cassano , Luca Fanelli

Ermakov has shown how the solution to the classical harmonic oscillator in one spatial dimension with general time-dependent frequency can be reduced to the time-independent case and an associated nonlinear ordinary differential equation,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 T. R. Govindarajan , V. P. Nair

The stationary Schroedinger equation of the harmonic oscillator is deformed by a Darboux transformation to construct time-dependent potentials with the oscillator profile. The Darboux (supersymmetric or factorization) method is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Kevin Zelaya , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

For a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent (positive) mass and frequency, an unitary operator is shown to transform the quantum states of the system to those of a harmonic oscillator system of unit mass and time-dependent frequency, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dae-Yup Song

In this paper we have obtained the exact eigenstates of a two dimensional damped harmonic oscillator in time dependent noncommutative space. It has been observed that for some specific choices of the damping factor and the time dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-09 Manjari Dutta , Shreemoyee Ganguly , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

The evolution of any factorized time-reversible symplectic integrators, when applied to the harmonic oscillator, can be exactly solved in a closed form. The resulting modified Hamiltonians demonstrate the convergence of the Lie series…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Siu A. Chin , Sante R. Scuro

We study the generalized harmonic oscillator which has both the position-dependent mass and the potential depending on the form of mass function in a more general framework. The explicit expressions of the eigenvalue and eigenfunction for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-24 Ju Guo-Xing , Cai Chang-Ying , Ren Zhong-Zhou

The classical Hamiltonian system of time-dependent harmonic oscillator driven by the arbitrary external time-dependent force is considered. Exact analytical solution of the corresponding equations of motion is constructed in the framework…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-06-26 A. V. Kuzmin , Marko Robnik

We treat the quantum dynamics of a harmonic oscillator as well as its inverted counterpart in the Schr\"odinger picture. Generally in the most papers of the literature, the inverted harmonic oscillator is formally obtained from the harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-25 Nadjat Amaouche , Ishak Bouguerche , Rahma Zerimeche , Mustapha Maamache

It is well-known that quantum mechanics admits two distinct evolutions: the unitary evolution, which is deterministic and well described by the Schr\"{o}dinger equation, and the collapse of the wave function, which is probablistic,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Le Hu , Andrew N. Jordan

Strichartz estimates for a time-decaying harmonic oscillator were proven with some assumptions of coefficients for the time-decaying harmonic potentials. The main results of this paper are to remove these assumptions and to enable us to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-15 Masaki Kawamoto

We associate the stationary harmonic oscillator with time-dependent systems exhibiting non-Hermiticity by means of point transformations. The new systems are exactly solvable, with all-real spectrum, and transit to the Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Kevin Zelaya , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz