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Quantum Revivals of Morse Oscillators and Farey-Ford Geometry

2013/08/21 by Alvason Zhenhua Li, Li, Alvason Zhenhua, William G. Harter +1 · 1 citation
Chemistry · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Molecular spectroscopy and chirality #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1308.4470

arxiv created 2013/08/21 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/21 · arxiv updated 2013/08/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Analytical eigensolutions for Morse oscillators are used to investigate quantum resonance and revivals and show how Morse anharmonicity affects revival times. A minimum semi-classical Morse revival time Tmin-rev found by Heller is related to a complete quantum revival time Trev using a quantum deviation parameter that in turn relates Trev to the maximum quantum beat period Tmax-beat. Also, number theory of Farey and Thales-circle geometry of Ford is shown to elegantly analyze and display fractional revivals. Such quantum dynamical analysis may have applications for spectroscopy or quantum information processing and computing.

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