Anharmonic effects on phase-space quantum profiles: an exact approach
arXiv:2001.03785 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1612/1/012002
Abstract
Given its well known spectral decomposition profile, the -dim harmonic oscillator potential modified by an inverse square (-dim angular momentum-like) contribution works as an efficient platform for probing classical and quantum information quantifiers in the context of the phase-space Weyl-Wigner formalism. In particular, the phase-space informational content related to the canonical ensemble driven by such a {\em singular oscillator} can be quantified in terms of well established analytical structures. Considering that, on one hand, the {\em singular oscillator} produce a spectral decomposition profile equivalent to that one of the unmodified harmonic system -- in the sense that they result into identical thermodynamic statistics, even for different statistical mixtures -- on the other hand, a more complete scrutinization of their phase-space information content can capture some different aspects of the encoded information for the related quantum ensembles. Besides the identification of decoherence effects, the Wigner flow analysis is presumedly useful in identifying stable quantum configurations, according to finite temperature and interaction parameter values. Unexpectedly, our results show that the equivalence between the statistical (quantum) mechanics of the anharmonic singular oscillator and an ordinary harmonic oscillator can also be extended to the phase-space quantum purity quantifier, which is analytically computed and reproduces exactly the same quantum ensemble statistical mixture profile, which does not depend on interaction parameter values.
13 pages. Based on a talk delivered by A.E.B. at Symmetries in Science XVIII, 04th - 09th August 2019, Bregenz, Austria. To appear in the IOP Conference Series Proceedings
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