Wavepacket dynamics in a quantum double-well system with Razavy's potential coupled to a harmonic oscillator
Abstract
We have studied wavepacket dynamics in the Razavy hyperbolic double-well (DW) potential which is coupled to a harmonic oscillator (HO) by linear and quadratic interactions. Taking into account the lowest two states of DW and states of HO ( to 10), we evaluate eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the composite system. An analytical calculation is made for and numerical calculations are performed for . Quantum tunneling of wavepackets is realized between two bottoms of composite potential where and denote coordinates in DW and HO potentials, respectively. It has been shown that with increasing and/or the coupling strength, the tunneling period is considerably increased. Phase space plots of vs. and vs. are elliptic, where denotes an expectation value for the two-term wavepacket. This result is quite different from the relevant one previously obtained for the quartic DW potential with the use of the quantum phase space representation [Babyuk, arXiv:0208070]. Similarity and difference between results calculated for linear and quadratic couplings, and the uncertainty relation in the model are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1403.2368,
title = {Wavepacket dynamics in a quantum double-well system with Razavy's potential coupled to a harmonic oscillator},
author = {Hideo Hasegawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.2368},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
24 pages, 18 figures, revised text