Chapter 10: Q6P (page 384)
Work out to analog to Equation 10.62 for a particle of spin I.
Short Answer
The geometric phase is , and the eigenvector is
Chapter 10: Q6P (page 384)
Work out to analog to Equation 10.62 for a particle of spin I.
The geometric phase is , and the eigenvector is
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Get started for freeShow that if is real, the geometric phase vanishes. (Problems 10.3 and 10.4 are examples of this.) You might try to beat the rap by tacking an unnecessary (but perfectly legal) phase factor onto the eigenfunctions: , where is an arbitrary (real) function. Try it. You'll get a nonzero geometric phase, all right, but note what happens when you put it back into Equation 10.23. And for a closed loop it gives zero. Moral: For nonzero Berry's phase, you need (i) more than one time-dependent parameter in the Hamiltonian, and (ii) a Hamiltonian that yields nontrivially complex eigenfunctions.
Check the Equation 10.31 satisfies the time-dependent Schrodinger equation for the Hamiltonian in Equation 10.25. Also confirm Equation 10.33, and show that the sum of the squares of the coefficients is 1, as required for normalization.
A particle starts out in the ground state of the infinite square well (on the interval 0 ≤ x ≤ a) .Now a wall is slowly erected, slightly off center:
whererises gradually from According to the adiabatic theorem, the particle will remain in the ground state of the evolving Hamiltonian.
(a)Find (and sketch) the ground state at Hint: This should be the ground state of the infinite square well with an impenetrable barrier at . Note that the particle is confined to the (slightly) larger left “half” of the well.
(b) Find the (transcendental) equation for the ground state energy at time t.
Answer:
(c) Setting δ = 0 , solve graphically for z, and show that the smallest z goes from π to 2π as T goes from 0 to ∞. Explain this result.
(d) Now set δ = 0.01 and solve numerically for z, using
(e) Find the probability that the particle is in the right “half” of the well, as a function of z and δ. Answer:
. Evaluate this expression numerically for the T’s and δ in part (d). Comment on your results.
(f) Plot the ground state wave function for those same values of T and δ.
Note how it gets squeezed into the left half of the well, as the barrier grows.
The adiabatic approximation can be regarded as the first term in an adiabatic series for the coefficientsin Equation. Suppose the system starts out in theth state; in the adiabatic approximation, it remains in theth state, picking up only a time-dependent geometric phase factor (Equation):
(a) Substitute this into the right side of Equationto obtain the "first correction" to adiabaticity:
This enables us to calculate transition probabilities in the nearly adiabatic regime. To develop the "second correction," we would insert Equationon the right side of Equation, and so on.
(b) As an example, apply Equationto the driven oscillator (Problem). Show that (in the near-adiabatic approximation) transitions are possible only to the two immediately adjacent levels, for which
The driven harmonic oscillator. Suppose the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator (mass m, frequency ω) is subjected to a driving force of the form F(t) = m ω² f(t) , where f(t) is some specified function. (I have factored out m ω² for notational convenience; f(t) has the dimensions of length.) The Hamiltonian is
(10.90).
Assume that the force was first turned on at time This system can be solved exactly, both in classical mechanics and in quantum mechanics.
(a)Determine the classical position of the oscillator, assuming it started from rest at the origin . Answer:
(10.91).
(b) Show that the solution to the (time-dependent) Schrödinger equation for this oscillator, assuming it started out in the nth state of the undriven oscillator is given by Equation 2.61), can be written as
(2.61).
localid="1656143246748" (10.92).
(c) Show that the Eigen functions and Eigenvalues of H(t) are
(10.93).
(d) Show that in the adiabatic approximation the classical position (Equation 10.91) reduces to State the precise criterion for adiabaticity, in this context, as a constraint on the time derivative of f. Hint: Write and use integration by parts.
(e) Confirm the adiabatic theorem for this example, by using the results in (c) and (d) to show that
(10.94).
Check that the dynamic phase has the correct form (Equation 9.92). Is the geometric phase what you would expect?
(9.92).
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