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Stanley S. Coelho

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arXiv2025

The time-dependent quantum harmonic oscillator: a pedagogical approach via the Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical invariant method

In quantum mechanics courses, students often solve the Schrödinger equation for the harmonic oscillator with time-independent parameters. However, time-dependent quantum harmonic oscillators are relevant in modeling several problems as, for instance, the description of quantum motion of particles in traps, shortcuts to adiabaticity, generation of squeezed states, as well as quantum scalar fields evolving in expanding universes. In the present paper, we discuss, with a pedagogical approach, the quantum harmonic oscillator with time-dependent frequency via the Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical invariant method, revisiting the main steps to obtain the wave function associated with this model, and briefly discussing the relation between this oscillator and the generation of squeezed states. As examples of didactic applications of time-dependent harmonic oscillators and the Lewis-Riesenfeld method in quantum mechanics courses, we solve the following problems: the calculation of the transition probability associated with a harmonic oscillator which undergoes jumps in its frequency, and the analysis of the dynamics of a quantum particle in a Paul trap.

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arXiv2024

Squeezing equivalence of quantum harmonic oscillators under different frequency modulations

The papers by Janszky and Adam [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 46}, 6091 (1992)] and Chen \textit{et al.} [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 104}, 063002 (2010)] are examples of works where one can find the following equivalences: belonging to the following class: quantum harmonic oscillators subjected to different time-dependent frequency modulations, during a certain time interval $τ$, exhibit exactly the same final null squeezing parameter ($r_f=0$). In the present paper, we discuss a more general case of squeezing equivalence, where the final squeezing parameter can be non-null ($r_f\geq0$). We show that when the interest is in controlling the forms of the frequency modulations, but keeping free the choice of the values of $r_f$ and $τ$, this in general demands numerical calculations to find these values leading to squeezing equivalences (a particular case of this procedure recovers the equivalence found by Jansky and Adams). On the other hand, when the interest is not in previously controlling the form of these frequencies, but rather $r_f$ and $τ$ (and also some constraints, such as minimization of energy), one can have analytical solutions for these frequencies leading to squeezing equivalences (particular cases of this procedure are usually applied in problems of shortcuts to adiabaticity, as done by Chen \textit{et al.}). In this way, this more general squeezing equivalence discussed here is connected to recent and important topics in the literature as, for instance, generation of squeezed states and the obtaining of shortcuts to adiabaticity.

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arXiv2023

Exact solution of a time-dependent quantum harmonic oscillator with two frequency jumps via the Lewis-Riesenfeld dynamical invariant method

Harmonic oscillators with multiple abrupt jumps in their frequencies have been investigated by several authors during the last decades. We investigate the dynamics of a quantum harmonic oscillator with initial frequency $ω_0$, that undergoes a sudden jump to a frequency $ω_1$ and, after a certain time interval, suddenly returns to its initial frequency. Using the Lewis-Riesenfeld method of dynamical invariants, we present expressions for the mean energy value, the mean number of excitations, and the transition probabilities, considering the initial state different from the fundamental. We show that the mean energy of the oscillator, after the jumps, is equal or greater than the one before the jumps, even when $ω_1<ω_0$. We also show that, for particular values of the time interval between the jumps, the oscillator returns to the same initial state.

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