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Lower bound of minimal time evolution in quantum mechanics

arXiv
Authors: Pulak Ranjan Giri

Year

2007

Paper ID

49858

Status

Preprint

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171

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Abstract

We show that the total time of evolution from the initial quantum state to final quantum state and then back to the initial state, i.e., making a round trip along the great circle over S^2, must have a lower bound in quantum mechanics, if the difference between two eigenstates of the 2\times 2 Hamiltonian is kept fixed. Even the non-hermitian quantum mechanics can not reduce it to arbitrarily small value. In fact, we show that whether one uses a hermitian Hamiltonian or a non-hermitian, the required minimal total time of evolution is same. It is argued that in hermitian quantum mechanics the condition for minimal time evolution can be understood as a constraint coming from the orthogonality of the polarization vector \bf P of the evolving quantum state ρ={1/2}bf 1+ bf{P}cdotboldsymbolσ with the vector \boldsymbol{\mathcal O}(Θ) of the 2\times 2 hermitian Hamiltonians H ={1/2}{mathcal O}0boldsymbol{1}+ boldsymbol{mathcal O}(Θ\cdot\boldsymbolσ) and it is shown that the Hamiltonian H can be parameterized by two independent parameters {\mathcal O}_0 and Θ.

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