Propagator approach for time evolving wave packets in the quantum kicked rotator

Gary E. Bowman

doi:10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00447-7

Propagator approach for time evolving wave packets in the quantum kicked rotator

Gary E. Bowman

Astronomy and Planetary Sciences

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Abstract

We outline a method for time evolving narrow wave packets in the quantum-mechanical kicked rotator, an archetype of quantum chaos. We employ the approximation that the boundary conditions may be neglected. The evolution between kicks may then be carried out using the one-dimensional free-particle propagator.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	181-186
Number of pages	6
Journal	Computer Physics Communications
Volume	143
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0010-4655(01)00447-7
State	Published - Feb 15 2002

Keywords

Kicked rotator
Quantum chaos
Wave-packet dynamics

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