Two Dimensional Isotropic Harmonic Oscillator on a Time-dependent Sphere

preprint2012arXivOpen access

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate a two dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator on a time-dependent spherical background. The effect of the background can be represented as a minimally coupled field to the oscillator's Hamiltonian. For a fluctuating background, transition probabilities per unit time are obtained. Transitions are possible if the energy eigenvalues of the oscillator EiE_i and frequencies of the fluctuating background ωnω_n satisfy the following two simple relations: Ej≃Ei−ℏωnE_{j}\simeq E_{i}-\hbarω_{n} (stimulated emission) or Ej≃Ei+ℏωnE_{j}\simeq E_{i}+\hbarω_{n} (absorption). This indicates that a background fluctuating at a frequency of ωnω_n interacts with the oscillator as a quantum field of the same frequency. We believe this result is also applicable for an arbitrary quantum system defined on a fluctuating maximally symmetric background.

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