EXTENDING THE FLUX OPERATOR USING HUSIMI PROJECTIONS
Speaker: DOUGLAS MASON , Harvard University
Date: April 13 2012
Time: 12:00PM to 1:00PM
Location: 32-124
Host: Alan Edelman, CSAIL
Contact: Shirley Entzminger, 3-4347, Daisymae@math.mit.edu
Relevant URL: http://math.mit.edu/crib
Pizza and beverages will be provided at 11:45 AM outside Room 32-124.
ABSTRACT:
A common tool among physics in the transport community is the probability flux operator, but connecting this operator to measurement has not received much attention. We have extended the definition of flux by using coherent states, rendering it both measurable and infinitely more useful. For instance, we can use our extended definition to study closed systems and the classical dynamics of individual quantum states, and then connect these dynamics to resonant states interacting with an environment. This analytical technique, based on semi-classics, brings new tools to bear on wavefunction analysis and visualization.
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