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Semiclassical analysis of constrained quantum systems

G F Dell'Antonio1 and L Tenuta2

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We study the dynamics of a quantum particle in \field{R}{n+m} constrained by a strong potential force to stay within a distance of order planck (in suitable units) from a smooth n-dimensional submanifold M. We prove that in the semiclassical limit the evolution of the wavefunction is approximated in norm, up to terms of order planck1/2, by the evolution of a semiclassical wave packet centred on the trajectory of the corresponding classical constrained system.


PACS

03.65.Sq Semiclassical theories and applications

03.70.+k Theory of quantized fields

03.65.Ge Solutions of wave equations: bound states

MSC

81Q20 Semiclassical techniques including WKB and Maslov methods

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 21 (28 May 2004)

Received 11 December 2003, in final form 5 April 2004

Published 12 May 2004



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