Exponential Decay outside of the Light Cone for the Pseudo-Relativistic Non-Autonomous Schrödinger Equation

Abstract

We establish a maximal velocity bound for a pseudo-relativistic quantum particle in an external time-dependent potential. Our estimate shows that the probability for the particle, starting in a convex set $X\subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$ at $t=0$, to reach a convex set $Y\subset {\mathbb{R}}^d$ at a time $t>0$, is bounded by $e^{-2\delta }$ where $\delta$ is the distance from $Y$ to the section at time $t$ of the light cone generated by $X$.

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