Time-dependent perturbation theory in quantum cosmology

Time dependent perturbation theory in Quantum Cosmology

We describe radiative processes in Quantum Cosmology, from the solutions of the Wheeler De Witt equation. By virtue of this constraint equation, the quantum propagation of gravity is modified by the matter interaction hamiltonian at the level of amplitudes. In this we generalize previous works where gravity was coupled only to expectation values of matter operators. By a “reduction formula” we ...

Time-dependent Perturbation Theory in Quantum Mechanics

After revealing difficulties of the standard time-dependent perturbation theory in quantum mechanics mainly from the viewpoint of practical calculation, we propose a new quasi-canonical perturbation theory. In the new theory, the dynamics of physical observables, instead of that of coefficients of wave-function expansion, is formulated so that the gauge-invariance and correspondence principles ...

Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory

Our starting point is the set of eigenstates n of the unperturbed Hamiltonian 0 n H n E n = , notice we are not labeling with a zero, no 0 n E , because with a time-dependent Hamiltonian, energy will not be conserved, so it is pointless to look for energy corrections. What happens instead, provided the perturbation is not too large, is that the system makes transitions between the eigenstates n...

Time dependent Green functions in Quantum Cosmology

The aim of this article is twofold. First we examine from a new angle the question of the recovery of time in quantum cosmology. We construct Green functions for matter fields from the solutions of the Wheeler De Witt equation. For simplicity we work in a mini-superspace context. By evaluating these Green functions in a first order development of the energy increment induced by matrix elements ...

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