Questions tagged [hamiltonian]
The central term in the hamiltonian formalism. Can be interpreted as an energy input, or "true" energy.
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Discretization of Hamiltonian with first derivative
In a particular 1D system, the Hamiltonian can be writen as
$$H=\mathrm{i}\left(f(r)\frac{\partial}{\partial r}+\frac{1}{2}f'(r)\right)\; ,$$
wher $\mathrm{i}$ is the imaginary unit, and $f(r)$ is a ...
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How to interpret overlap in Hamiltonian if it is not a degeneracy?
In Fruchart et al.'s An Introduction to Topological Insulators, the Bloch Hamiltonian for a two-band insulator is given in the general form $ H(k)= $
\begin{bmatrix}
h_0+h_z & h_x-i h_y \\
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Eigenvalues of the Hamiltonian
Is every eigenvalue of the Hamiltonian a form of energy?
If not are there values of the Hamiltonian that do not correspond to the energy of the system?
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Is the tight binding model an effective free fermion model?
The tight-binding Hamiltionian has the form
$$H=-t\sum_i\left(c_i^\dagger c_{i+1} + c_{i}c_{i+1}^\dagger\right)$$
But does this mean that it can be represented in the form of free fermion modes?
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Our physical universe as a tuple?
I want to define our physical universe as a tuple, call it OPU, in the same way automata are defined as tuples. Here is a deterministic finite automaton (DFA) that recognizes the language $0^*$:
$(\{...
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Expectation value of Hamiltonian squared [on hold]
I'm trying to get the expectation value of $H^2$ for a harmonic oscillator in a state $\psi$ which coefficients in its expansion on eigenstates are all real.
Is it correct to do this?
$\langle\psi|H^...
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From Hamiltonian finding average value of an expression [on hold]
How to go about solving this? I know the potential term from the given Hamiltonian. But from the answer i am suspecting there is some relation with average energy associated with each degrees of ...
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How does a Hamiltonian 'generate' a unitary?
I know that the unitary (propagator) is given by
$$U=e^{iHt}\tag{1}.$$
But I actually never saw how a Hamiltonian translates into a unitary. For example when I consider a two-level rotation in a ...
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Hamiltonian of a quantum heat bath
I have seen the Hamiltonian for a heat bath written as:
$$ H_B = \hbar \int_0^\infty \omega b(\omega)^\dagger b(\omega) d\omega $$
I was hoping to understand this equation better. This suggests that ...
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What is the 4x4 matrix for the charge inversion operator and how do you construct it?
I have a 4x4 Hamiltonian describing a part of my system. To get a holistic view of the situation I need to do a charge inversion on the matrix. What is the 4x4 charge inversion operator? And what is ...
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Wilson Sommerfeld Method to solve for Energy
I have an example in my notes to find the quantum energy levels when the Hamiltonian is $H(p,q)={p^2}/{2m}+(mw^2q^2)/2$. However when given the Hamiltonian $H(p,q)={p^2}/{2m}$, I'm having ...
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Mathematical representation of Symmetry Transformation
Consider a general Hamiltonian that is made up of three terms
$\mathcal{H}$ = term I + term II + term III .
Suppose the combination of charge conjugation and parity (CP) is a symmetry of this ...
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What people mean by “state evolving with the interacting/free theory”?
This is a quite basic question but I confess it is something I didn't get up to this point.
When defining the Moller operators and hence the $\cal{S}$-matrix one usually considers "states $\Psi$ ...
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Potential must be real for Hamiltonian to be Hermitian?
I have seen a few proofs specify for finite wells, step functions, and harmonic oscillators, that $V$ must be real for $H$ to be Hermitian. Why is that?
If we're solving the Schrodinger equation, we ...
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Good /not good quantum numbers in spin-orbit coupling
Given that the Hamiltonian associated with the spin-orbit interaction can be expressed in terms of the total orbital angular momentum and total spin operators as:
$$ H_{SO} = -\frac{e}{2m_e ^2 c^2} \...
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Time reversal of a QM Hamiltonian
I'm interested in the time reversal properties of a term in the non-relativistic QM Hamiltonian proportional (up to a true scalar) to
$$
H \propto (\vec S_1 \times \vec S_2) \cdot \vec L
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The ...
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Quantum walk and the Hamiltonian operator
The Hamiltonian operator is defined on the graph $G$ as $H_{A}(t) = \exp(itA)$ where $A$ is the adjacency matrix of the graph $G$. It is said that this operator is a transition matrix and represents ...
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Time translation invariance of Hamiltonian
I am learning about the time translation invariance of the Hamiltonian. I read that
the time translation invariance is already manifest in the fact that our
Hamiltonian is chosen an ...
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‘Supersymmetrizing’ an arbitrary quantum-mechanical potential
To my understanding, it is not possible to $``\text{supersymmetrize}"$ an arbitrary quantum-mechanical system unless one knows how to represent the corresponding Hamiltonian in the form
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H = A^\...
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Hamiltonian time-independent, partial derivative always zero?
For conceptual simplicity, let's restrict the discussion to systems with a two-dimensional phase space $\mathcal P$ with generalized coordinates $(q,p)$.
Hamiltonian is a function that maps a pair ...
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Quantizing the double pendulum hamiltonian
So, just for kicks, I thought it might be fun to try to see what happens if you have a "quantum double pendulum". Take a simple point pendulum with mass $m$ and length $l$, and hang a second identical ...
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Time dependence of the momentum operator for a free particle
I was studying Modern Quantum Mechanics by Sakurai, and at the page 85, it is given the analysis of a free particle.
There, the author assumes that Hamiltonian is
$$\hat H = \frac{ \hat p ^2}{ 2m},$$...
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Two ways to define wave function in Heisenberg picture
I found two ways to define a wave function in Heisenberg picture,
$| \psi(t) \rangle_\mathrm{H}=\mathrm e^{\mathrm i H t/\hbar} | \psi(t) \rangle_\mathrm{S}$
which further gives $|\psi(t) \rangle_\...
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How do we find a time-independent Hamiltonian that generates a given unitary transformation?
I know that for time independent Hamiltonians we can make the statement
$$U = e^{-iHt}\tag{1}$$
where $H$ is a time-independent Hamiltonian (divided by $\hbar$) and $U$ the unitary, also known as ...
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Why we neglect the $\hbar ω/2$ in the Hamiltonian of the the Electromagnetic Field?
After the quantization of the electric and the magnetic field, we get the Hamiltonian of the electromagnetic field:
$$H= \hbar ω(a^{\dagger}a +1/2) .$$
with $\hbar$ the planck constant and $a^{\...
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Action of complex conjugation on Hamiltonian
Consider a finite-dimensional non-relativistic QM system with hamiltonian $H$. Let $K$ denote the complex conjugation operator. What does $K H K$ simplify to, if the system is: (a) spin-zero; (b) spin-...
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Derivation of the BCS Hamiltonian
$$
\hat{H}_{\mathrm{BCS}}=\sum_{k \sigma} \varepsilon_{k} c_{k \sigma}^{\dagger} c_{k \sigma}-\sum_{k k^{\prime}} G_{k k^{\prime}} c_{k \uparrow}^{\dagger} c_{-k \downarrow}^{\dagger} c_{-k^{\prime} \...
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False solution of Landau Hamiltonian
The Landau Hamiltonian in 2D is given (in natural units $q=c=2m=1$) by $$ \hat{H} = (\hat{\vec{p}}-\vec{A}(\hat{\vec{x}}))^2 \,,$$ where $\vec{A}$ is the magnetic vector potential field.
We know that ...
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How can we prove that correlation function depends only on the spatial difference if Hamiltonian is translationally invariant?
If $H$ is a translationally invariant Hamiltonian, how can I convince myself that the correlation function (on the ground state $\left|G\right\rangle$) $\left\langle G|\psi(x)\psi(x’)|G\right\rangle$ ...
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What if we set Hamilton-Jacobi mechanics as an axiom?
We postulate principle of least action then we get Lagrange mechanics, after we can get Hamilton mechanics either from postulate or lagrange mechanics. Then we get HJE. But what if we have HJE as ...
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Hamilton-Jacobi equation and method of solving it [duplicate]
So, this equation we get when we find canonical transformation that makes new hamiltonian=0. There are 4 main transformations: F1(q,Q,t), F2(q,P,t), F3(p,Q,t), F4(p,P,t). On practice and in every book ...
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How does the Berry curvature relate to the hopping strengths in the Haldane model?
Take Haldane's Hamiltonian, as quoted from Fruchart et al.'s An Introduction to Topological Insulators:
3.5.3. Haldane's Hamiltonian
The first quantized Hamiltonian of Haldane's model can be ...
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$p$-spin spherical spin glass
Consider the $p$-spin spherical spin glass model with Hamiltonian $$H_{N,p}(\sigma)=\frac{1}{{N}^{\frac{(p-1)}{2}}} \sum \limits_{i_1,...i_p} J_{i_1,...i_p} \sigma_{i_1} \sigma_{i_2} .. \sigma_{i_p} $$...
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What is the symmetry of a Hamiltonian?
Recently while I was reading a paper on integrability of Rabi model by D Braak. In this paper there is a discussion about the symmetry of a model and that in the case of the Rabi model it is $\mathbb{...
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Finding the potential for a given Hamiltonian
Background: So I know from my lecture that if I am given a wave-function, which describes a particle and a potential V(x) in which the particle is in, I can use V(x) in the time-independent ...
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Relationship between Eigenvectors of Hamiltonian vs function of the Representations of the Group
I am trying to understand the relationship between the eigenvectors obtained from a diagonalizing a Hamiltonian and the basis functions of the Representations of the Group, $G$, used to build the ...
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Expectation value of coordinate mixed operator with ground state
I have a Hamiltonian of the Hydrogen atom:
$H=H_0+H_1+H_2$ , when: $H_0 $ is the hamiltonian from central force and from electron momentum , $H_1$ is the relativistic kinetic fixing, and $H_2$ is the ...
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Energy in spherically symmetric space times
In deriving the equations of motion for geodesics in spherically symmetric spacetimes through Hamiltonian formalism, we can find some constants of motion, namely, $E$ and $L$, the energy per unit of ...
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What is the physical meaning of Hamiltonian eigenstates for a single particle?
Let us assume we have one 2-dimensional quantum system with a Hamiltonian
$$H = \sum_{n=1}^2 n \omega \mid n\rangle\langle n\mid$$
Do I understand it correctly when I assume that the eigenstates of ...
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Commutation relations
Given that the Hamiltonian for Muonium spin in zero magnetic field is
$$\hat{H} = a \vec I \cdot \vec J$$
where $\vec I$ is the spin of a muon, and $\vec J$ is the spin of the electron, what is the ...
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Alternate definitions of Thermal states
The definition of thermal states I'm used to is:
$$\tau_{\beta} = \frac{1}{Z}\,e^{-\beta H}$$
where $Z$ is the partition function defined as $Z= \mathrm{Tr}(e^{-\beta H})$, $\beta$ the inverse ...
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Harmonic oscillator energy difference between $(n+\frac{1}{2})h \omega$ and $(n+\frac{1}{2})\hbar \omega$
When I was studying the Harmonic Oscillator using the Schrödinger equation, I was told in lectures to pay attention to the units.
There were 2 different equations given for the Energy of a Harmonic ...
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How to construct a 2-partite matrix
Let's assume we have an internal hamiltonian $H_0 = \mid 1\rangle \langle 1\mid$.
Now let's assume we have two systems with identical Hamiltonians $H^1_0$,$H^2_0$ and I want to compute the joint ...
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How to calculate Hamiltonian when Lagrangian has higher order derivatives? [duplicate]
If we have a Lagrangian density $\mathcal{L}$ for a scalar field $\phi$ depending on $\phi$, $\partial _{\mu} \phi$, and $\partial _{\mu} \partial _{\nu} \phi$, what is the Hamiltonian? Additionally, ...
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Constructing a Hamiltonian for $N$-qubits
Let us assume we have a qubit with an internal Hamiltonian $H_0 = \sum_i \varepsilon_i |i\rangle\langle i|$.
Now let's assume we have 2 such qubits. How would their joint Hamiltonian look like?
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How to derive the retarded Green's function matrix for a quadratic Hamiltonian?
Start with the quadratic Hamiltonian for fermion:
$$\hat{H}=\sum_{ij}H_{ij}\hat{c}_i^\dagger \hat{c}_j$$
and the definition of retarded Green's functon in time domain:
$$G_{i,j}^r(t_1,t_2)=-i\theta(...
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Can we abstractly deduce the $L^2$ is conserved assuming only rotational symmetry of Hamiltonian?
Here $L^2$ is defined as
$$
L^2=L_x^2+L_y^2+L_z^2
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representing the observable of the magnitude of the angular momentum.
There are a lot of proofs showing the $z$-projection of the angular ...
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How to define the Hamiltonian properly in quantum field theory
In a rigorous fashion, how does one define the Hamiltonian of QFT as
$$\hat{H}(t) = \int d^3x \hat{\mathcal{H}}(x, t)$$
For now I'm ignoring the fact that $\hat{\mathcal{H}}$ itself may be ill-...
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Hamiltonian as differential manifold
I know that phase space $(q^i, p^i)$ can be treated as manifold. But for me defining hamiltonian as a function also leads to new manifold $(q^i, p^i, H(q^i,p^i))$. Like map from open set $(q^i, p^i) \...
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Treating $-E_J \vert{\cos{(\hat{\theta}/2)}}\vert$ in the charge basis
I'm trying to write down the Hamiltonian for a Cooper pair box in the charge basis in the scenario where the Josephson potential term is not $-E_J \cos{\hat{\theta}}$, but $-E_J \vert{\cos{(\hat{\...
