Semiclassical description of collapses and revivals of quantum wave packets in bounded domains

We study a special kind of semiclassical limit of quantum dynamics on a circle and in a box (infinite potential well with hard walls) as the Planck constant tends to zero and time tends to infinity. The results give detailed information about all stages of evolution of quantum wave packets: semiclassical motion, collapses, revivals, as well as intermediate stages. In particular, we rigorously justify the fact that the spatial distribution of a wave packet is most of the time close to uniform. This fact was previously known only from numerical calculations. We apply the obtained results to a problem of classical mechanics: deciding whether recently suggested functional classical mechanics is preferable to traditional Newtonian one from the quantum-mechanical point of view. To do this, we study the semiclassical limit of the Husimi functions of quantum states. We show that functional mechanics remains valid at larger time scales than Newtonian one and, therefore, is preferable. Finally, we analyse the quantum dynamics in a box in case when the size of the box is known with a random error. We show that, in this case, the probability distribution of the position of a quantum particle is not almost periodic, but tends to a limit distribution as time indefinitely increases.Comment: 43 page

Functional Classical Mechanics and Rational Numbers

The notion of microscopic state of the system at a given moment of time as a point in the phase space as well as a notion of trajectory is widely used in classical mechanics. However, it does not have an immediate physical meaning, since arbitrary real numbers are unobservable. This notion leads to the known paradoxes, such as the irreversibility problem. A "functional" formulation of classical mechanics is suggested. The physical meaning is attached in this formulation not to an individual trajectory but only to a "beam" of trajectories, or the distribution function on phase space. The fundamental equation of the microscopic dynamics in the functional approach is not the Newton equation but the Liouville equation for the distribution function of the single particle. The Newton equation in this approach appears as an approximate equation describing the dynamics of the average values and there are corrections to the Newton trajectories. We give a construction of probability density function starting from the directly observable quantities, i.e., the results of measurements, which are rational numbers.Comment: 8 page

Quantum stochastic equation for the low density limit

A new derivation of quantum stochastic differential equation for the evolution operator in the low density limit is presented. We use the distribution approach and derive a new algebra for quadratic master fields in the low density limit by using the energy representation. We formulate the stochastic golden rule in the low density limit case for a system coupling with Bose field via quadratic interaction. In particular the vacuum expectation value of the evolution operator is computed and its exponential decay is shown.Comment: Replaced with version published in J. Phys. A. References are adde