Time-Dependent Diffeomorphisms as Quantum Canonical Transformations and the Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillator
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Quantum canonical transformations corresponding to time-dependent diffeomorphisms of the configuration space are studied. A special class of these transformations which correspond to time-dependent dilatations is used to identify a previously unknown class of exactly solvable time-dependent harmonic oscillators. The CaldirolaKanai oscillator belongs to this class. For a general time-dependent harmonic oscillator, it is shown that choosing the dilatation parameter to satisfy the classical equation of motion, one obtains the solution of the Schrödinger equation. A simple generalization of this result leads to the reduction of the Schrödinger equation to a second order ordinary differential equation whose special case is the auxiliary equation of the LewisRiesenfeld invariant theory. Time-evolution operator is expressed in terms of a positive real solution of this equation in a closed form, and the time-dependent position and momentum operators are calculated. PACS numbers: 03.65.Bz, 03.65.Ge
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