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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Canonical and Perturbed Quantum Potential-Well Problems: A Universal Function Approach

Ahmed, Istiaque, s3119889@student.rmit.edu.au January 2007 (has links)
The limits of the current micro-scale electronics technology have been approaching rapidly. At nano-scale, however, the physical phenomena involved are fundamentally different than in micro-scale. Classical and semi-classical physical principles are no longer powerful enough or even valid to describe the phenomena involved. The rich and powerful concepts in quantum mechanics have become indispensable. There are several commercial software packages already available for modeling and simulation of the electrical, magnetic, and mechanical characteristics and properties of the nano-scale devices. However, our objective here is to go one step further and create a physics-based problem-adapted solution methodology. We carry out computation for eigenfunctions of canonical and the associated perturbed quantum systems and utilize them as co-ordinate functions for solving more complex problems. We have profoundly worked with the infinite quantum potential-well problem, since they have closed-form solutions and therefore are analytically known eigenfunctions. Perturbation of the infinite quantum potential-well was done through a single box function, multiple box functions, and with a triangular function. The proposed solution concept utilizes the notion of
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Chaos and Momentum Diffusion of the Classical and Quantum Kicked Rotor

Zheng, Yindong 08 1900 (has links)
The de Broglie-Bohm (BB) approach to quantum mechanics gives trajectories similar to classical trajectories except that they are also determined by a quantum potential. The quantum potential is a "fictitious potential" in the sense that it is part of the quantum kinetic energy. We use quantum trajectories to treat quantum chaos in a manner similar to classical chaos. For the kicked rotor, which is a bounded system, we use the Benettin et al. method to calculate both classical and quantum Lyapunov exponents as a function of control parameter K and find chaos in both cases. Within the chaotic sea we find in both cases nonchaotic stability regions for K equal to multiples of π. For even multiples of π the stability regions are associated with classical accelerator mode islands and for odd multiples of π they are associated with new oscillator modes. We examine the structure of these regions. Momentum diffusion of the quantum kicked rotor is studied with both BB and standard quantum mechanics (SQM). A general analytical expression is given for the momentum diffusion at quantum resonance of both BB and SQM. We obtain agreement between the two approaches in numerical experiments. For the case of nonresonance the quantum potential is not zero and must be included as part of the quantum kinetic energy for agreement. The numerical data for momentum diffusion of classical kicked rotor is well fit by a power law DNβ in the number of kicks N. In the anomalous momentum diffusion regions due to accelerator modes the exponent β(K) is slightly less than quadratic, except for a slight dip, in agreement with an upper bound (K2/2)N2. The corresponding coefficient D(K) in these regions has three distinct sections, most likely due to accelerator modes with period greater than one. We also show that the local Lyapunov exponent of the classical kicked rotor has a plateau for a duration that depends on the initial separation and then decreases asymptotically as O(t-1lnt), where t is the time. This behavior is consistent with an upper bound that is determined analytically.

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