The quantum fidelity for the time-dependent singular quantum oscillator

TL;DR

This paper provides an exact analysis of quantum fidelity for a time-dependent singular quantum oscillator, revealing recurrence phenomena and relationships between quantum and classical fidelities in different stability regimes.

Contribution

It offers a novel exact study of quantum fidelity in a time-periodic singular oscillator, including recurrence behavior and classical-quantum fidelity relationships.

Findings

Quantum fidelity can recur to 1 at infinite times.

Fidelity decay is quadratic near t=0.

Classical stability influences quantum fidelity behavior.

Abstract

In this paper we perform an exact study of ``Quantum Fidelity'' (also called Loschmidt Echo) for the time-periodic quantum Harmonic Oscillator of Hamiltonian : $$ \hat H\_{g}(t):=\frac{P^2}{2}+ f(t)\frac{Q^2}{2}+\frac{g^2}{Q^2} $$ when compared with the quantum evolution induced by $\hat H\_{0}(t)$ ($g=0$), in the case where $f$ is a $T$-periodic function and $g$ a real constant. The reference (initial) state is taken to be an arbitrary ``generalized coherent state'' in the sense of Perelomov. We show that, starting with a quadratic decrease in time in the neighborhood of $t=0$, this quantum fidelity may recur to its initial value 1 at an infinite sequence of times {$t\_{k}$}. We discuss the result when the classical motion induced by Hamiltonian $\hat H\_{0}(t)$ is assumed to be stable versus unstable. A beautiful relationship between the quantum and the classical fidelity is also demonstrated.