Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.633, 208-213, 2015
Quantum revivals of Morse oscillators and Farey-Ford geometry
Analytical eigensolutions for Morse oscillators are used to investigate quantum resonance and revivals and show how Morse anharmonicity affects revival times. A minimum semi-classical Morse revival time Tmin-rev found by Heller is related to a complete quantum revival time T-rev, using a quantum deviation delta(N) parameter that in turn relates T-rev to the maximum quantum beat period Tmax-beat. Also, number theory of Farey and Thales-circle geometry of Ford is shown to elegantly analyze and display fractional revivals. Such quantum dynamical analysis may have applications for spectroscopy or quantum information processing and computing. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.