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Some of the most enduring questions in physics--including the quantum measurement problem and the quantization of gravity--involve the interaction of a quantum system with a classical environment. Two linearly coupled harmonic oscillators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rachael M. McDermott , Ian H. Redmount

The Feynman path integral for the generalized harmonic oscillator is reviewed, and it is shown that the path integral can be used to find a complete set of wave functions for the oscillator. Harmonic oscillators with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dae-Yup Song

A study of the non linear modes of a two degree of freedom mechanical system with bilateral elastic stop is considered. The issue related to the non-smoothness of the impact force is handled through a regularization technique. In order to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 El Hadi Moussi , Sergio Bellizzi , Bruno Cochelin , I. Nistor

Other than scattering problems where perturbation theory is applicable, there are basically two ways to solve problems in physics. One is to reduce the problem to harmonic oscillators, and the other is to formulate the problem in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. S. Kim , Marilyn E. Noz

We follow up on our previous works which presented a possible approach for deriving symplectic schemes for a certain class of highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems. The approach considers the Hamilton-Jacobi form of the equations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-08-06 Matthew Dobson , Claude Le Bris , Frederic Legoll

The system of two $Q$-deformed oscillators coupled so that the total Hamiltonian has the su$_Q$(2) symmetry is proved to be equivalent, to lowest order approximation, to a system of two identical Morse oscillators coupled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dennis Bonatsos , C. Daskaloyannis , P. Kolokotronis

Through a set of generators that preserves the hermiticity and trace of density matrices, we analyze the damping of harmonic oscillator in open quantum systems into four modes, distinguished by their specific effects on the covariance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-23 B. A. Tay

We report on the possibilities of using the method of normal fundamental systems for solving some problems of oscillation theory. Large elastic dynamical systems with continuous and discrete parameters are considered, which have many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olena V. Mul , Delfim F. M. Torres

The harmonic oscillator is one of the simplest physical systems but also one of the most fundamental. It is ubiquitous in nature, often serving as an approximation for a more complicated system or as a building block in larger models.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 K. R. Brown , C. Ospelkaus , Y. Colombe , A. C. Wilson , D. Leibfried , D. J. Wineland

We consider a six-parameter family of the square integrable wave functions for the simple harmonic oscillator, which cannot be obtained by the standard separation of variables. They are given by the action of the corresponding maximal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Raquel M. Lopez , Sergei K. Suslov , Jose M. Vega-Guzman

In the existing literature various numerical techniques have been developed to quantize the confined harmonic oscillator in higher dimensions. In obtaining the energy eigenvalues, such methods often involve indirect approaches such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Kunle Adegoke , Adenike Olatinwo , Henry Otobrise , Funmi Akintujoye , Afees Tiamiyu

It is often argued that two linearly coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, even when cooled to their ground state, display no inherently quantum features beyond quantized energy levels. Here, we challenge this view by showing that their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Safoura Mirkhalaf , Helmut Ritsch , Karol Gietka

Harmonic inversion has already been proven to be a powerful tool for the analysis of quantum spectra and the periodic orbit orbit quantization of chaotic systems. The harmonic inversion technique circumvents the convergence problems of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Weibert , J. Main , G. Wunner

The one-dimensional harmonic oscillator in a box problem is possibly the simplest example of a two-mode system. This system has two exactly solvable limits, the harmonic oscillator and a particle in a (one-dimensional) box. Each of the two…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-04 V. G. Gueorguiev , A. R. P. Rau , and J. P. Draayer

Experimental analysis of the motion in a system of two coupled oscillators with arbitrary initial conditions was performed and the normal coordinates were obtained directly. The system consisted of two gliders moving on an air track, joined…

Physics Education · Physics 2020-12-30 Alvaro Suarez , Daniel Baccino , Martin Monteiro , Arturo C. Marti

In this technical note, we propose a practicable quantized sampled velocity data coupling protocol for synchronization of a set of harmonic oscillators. The coupling protocol is designed in a quantized way via interconnecting the velocities…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Jingyi Wang , Jianwen Feng , Yijun Lou , Guanrong Chen

A system of two coupled quantum harmonic oscillators with the Hamiltonian ${\hat H}=\frac{1}{2}\left(\frac{1}{m_1}{\hat p}^{2}_1 + \frac{1}{m_2}{\hat p}^{2}_2+A x^2_1+B x^2_2+ C x_1 x_2\right)$ can be found in many applications of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Dmitry Makarov

The generalized pseudospectral method is employed for the accurate calculation of eigenvalues, densities and expectation values for the spiked harmonic oscillators. This allows \emph{nonuniform} and \emph{optimal} spatial discretization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Amlan K. Roy

We investigate the angular normal modes for small oscillations about an equilibrium of a single-component coulomb cluster confined by a radially symmetric external potential to a circle. The dynamical matrix for this system is a Laplacian…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 L. W. Lupinski , M. J. Madsen

Synchronization of coupled harmonic oscillators is investigated. Coupling considered here is pairwise, unidirectional, and described by a nonlinear function (whose graph resides in the first and third quadrants) of some projection of the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-08-04 S. Emre Tuna