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Starting with the quantum Liouville equation, we write the density operator as the product of elements respectively in the left and right ideals of an operator algebra and find that the Schrodinger picture may be expressed through two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. R. Brown , B. J. Hiley

The d-dimensional generalization of the point canonical transformation for a quantum particle endowed with a position-dependent mass in Schrodinger equation is described. Illustrative examples including; the harmonic oscillator, Coulomb,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Omar Mustafa , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

We consider a class of singular Liouville equations on compact surfaces motivated by the study of Electroweak and Self-Dual Chern-Simons theories, the Gaussian curvature prescription with conical singularities and Onsager's description of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-05 Daniele Bartolucci , Andrea Malchiodi

The Sturm-Liouville boundary value problem (SLBVP) stands as a fundamental cornerstone in the realm of mathematical analysis and physical modeling. Also known as the Sturm-Liouville problem (SLP), this paper explores the intricacies of this…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-02-02 N. Karjanto , P. Sadhani

We study a Sturm-Liouville type eigenvalue problem for second-order differential equations on the infinite interval. Here the eigenfunctions are nonzero solutions exponentially decaying at infinity. We prove that at any discrete eigenvalue…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-09-08 David Blazquez-Sanz , Kazuyuki Yagasaki

In this paper we study reflection of holes in direct-band semiconductors from the linear potential barrier. It is shown that light-heavy hole transformation matrix is universal. It depends only on a dimensionless product of the light hole…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoli Polkovnikov , Robert Suris

We develop some new analytic bounds on transmission probabilities (and the related reflection probabilities and Bogoliubov coefficients) for generic one-dimensional scattering problems. To do so we rewrite the Schrodinger equation for some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Petarpa Boonserm , Matt Visser

We consider a natural dimension reduction technique for the Liouville-von Neumann equation for a mixed quantum system based on evaluation of a trace formula combined with a direct expansion in modified Chebyshev polynomials. This reduction…

Computational Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Giacomo Mazzi , Ben Leimkuhler

A fundamental theorem of Liouville asserts that positive entire harmonic functions in Euclidean spaces must be constant. A remarkable Liouville-type theorem of Caffarelli-Gidas-Spruck states that positive entire solutions of $-\Delta u=u^{…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-23 BaoZhi Chu , YanYan Li , Zongyuan Li

Transformations performing on the dependent and/or the independent variables are an useful method used to classify PDE in class of equivalence. In this paper we consider a large class of U(1)-invariant nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-07 A. M. Scarfone

An approach for solving a variety of inverse coefficient problems for the Sturm-Liouville equation -y''+q(x)y={\lambda}y with a complex valued potential q(x) is presented. It is based on Neumann series of Bessel functions representations…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2024-10-23 Vladislav V. Kravchenko

Beginning with ordinary quantum mechanics for spinless particles, together with the hypothesis that all experimental measurements consist of positional measurements at different times, we characterize directly a class of nonlinear quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 H. -D. Doebner , G. A. Goldin , P. Nattermann

We derive the fully retarded energy shift of a neutral atom in two different geometries useful for modelling etched microstructures. First we calculate the energy shift due to a reflecting cylindrical wire, and then we work out the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-07 Claudia Eberlein , Robert Zietal

The Casimir-Polder interaction of an atom with a metallic wall is investigated in the framework of the Lifshitz theory. It is demonstrated that in some temperature (separation) region the Casimir-Polder entropy takes negative values and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. B. Bezerra , G. L. Klimchitskaya , V. M. Mostepanenko , C. Romero

We establish Liouville type theorems in the whole space and in a half-space for parabolic problems without scale invariance. To this end, we employ two methods, respectively based on the corresponding elliptic Liouville type theorems and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Pavol Quittner , Philippe Souplet

We study dissipative translationally invariant free-fermionic theories with quadratic Liouvillians. Using a Lie-algebraic approach, we solve the Lindblad equation and find the density matrix at all times for arbitrary time dependence of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-23 L. R. Bakker , V. I. Yashin , D. V. Kurlov , A. K. Fedorov , V. Gritsev

We consider the kinetic derivative nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, which is a one-dimensional nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a cubic derivative nonlinear term containing the Hilbert transformation. In our previous work, we proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Nobu Kishimoto , Yoshio Tsutsumi

We develop a dynamical formulation of one-dimensional scattering theory where the reflection and transmission amplitudes for a general, possibly complex and energy-dependent, scattering potential are given as solutions of a set of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ali Mostafazadeh

In this paper we introduce a generalization to the algebraic Bender-Wu recursion relation for the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of the anharmonic oscillator. We extend this well known formalism to the time-dependent quantum statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Florian Weissbach , Axel Pelster , Bodo Hamprecht

We analyze dynamical properties of the logarithmic Schr{\"o}dinger equation under a quadratic potential. The sign of the nonlinearity is such that it is known that in the absence of external potential, every solution is dispersive, with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Rémi Carles , Guillaume Ferriere