Oscillator eigenstates concentrated on classical trajectories
- 7 June 1992
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics A: General Physics
- Vol. 25 (11) , 3399-3418
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/25/11/039
Abstract
The highly degenerate eigenspaces of the two-dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator are proven to contain eigenstates that are optimally localized on the closed trajectories of the classical dynamics. As h(cross) to 0, their phase space probability density converges to the unique probability density on the corresponding trajectory which is invariant under the classical flow.Keywords
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