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Resonances and adiabatic invariance in classical and quantum scattering theory

Sudhir R. Jain

abstract: We discover that the energy-integral of time-delay is an adiabatic invariant in quantum scattering theory and corresponds classically to the phase space volume. The integral thus found provides a quantization condition for resonances, explaining a series of results recently found in non-relativistic and relativistic regimes. Further, a connection between statistical quantities like quantal resonance-width and classical friction has been established with a classically deterministic quantity, the stability exponent of an adiabatically perturbed periodic orbit. This relation can be employed to estimate the rate of energy dissipation in finite quantum systems.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0408169
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
8 pages
doi:
10.1016/j.physleta.2004.12.014
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0408169
created:
2004-08-27

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