Quantum revival

Consider a quantum system with the energies ${\displaystyle E_{i}}$ and the eigenstates ${\displaystyle \psi _{i}}$

${\displaystyle H\psi _{i}=E_{i}\psi _{i}}$

and let the energies be the rational fractions of some constant ${\displaystyle C}$

${\displaystyle E_{i}=C{M_{i} \over N_{i}}}$

(for example for hydrogen atom ${\displaystyle M_{i}=1}$, ${\displaystyle N_{i}=i^{2}}$, ${\displaystyle C=-13.6eV}$.

Then the truncated (till ${\displaystyle \mathbb {N} _{max}}$ of states) solution of the time dependent Schrödinger equation is

${\displaystyle \Psi (t)=\sum _{i=0}^{\mathbb {N} _{max}}a_{i}e^{-i{{E_{i}} \over \hbar }t}\psi _{i}}$

Superrevival of the inversion (return of the full approximate revivals to the original shape) in Jaynes-Cummings model when the exact spectrum in resonance around the average number of photons ${\displaystyle n_{0}=100}$ is approximated by the polynomial in the photon quantum number ${\displaystyle n}$ ${\displaystyle E(n)=a\delta n^{2}+b\delta n+c}$, ${\displaystyle \delta n=n-n_{0}}$

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Let ${\displaystyle L_{cm}}$ be to lowest common multiple of all ${\displaystyle N_{i}}$ and ${\displaystyle L_{cd}}$ greatest common divisor of all ${\displaystyle M_{i}}$ then for each ${\displaystyle N_{i}}$ the ${\displaystyle {L_{cm}}/N_{i}}$ is an integer, for each ${\displaystyle M_{i}}$ the ${\displaystyle {M_{i}}/L_{cd}}$ is an integer, ${\displaystyle 2\pi M_{i}{L_{cm}}/(N_{i}L_{cd})}$ is the full multiple of ${\displaystyle 2\pi }$ angle and

${\displaystyle \Psi (t)=\Psi (t+T)}$

after the full revival time time

${\displaystyle T={2\pi \hbar \over {L_{cd}C}}L_{cm}}$.

For the quantum system as small as Hydrogen and ${\displaystyle \mathbb {N} _{max}}$ as small as 100 it may take quadrillions of years till it will fully revive. Especially once created by fields the Trojan wave packet in a hydrogen atom exists without any external fields stroboscopically and eternally repeating itself after sweeping almost the whole hypercube of quantum phases exactly every full revival time.

The striking consequence is that no finite-bit computer can propagate the numerical wave function accurately for the arbitrarily long time. If the processor number is n-bit long floating point number then the number can be stored by the computer only with the finite accuracy after the comma and the energy is (up to 8 digits after the comma) for example 2.34576893 = 234576893/100000000 and as the finite fraction it is exactly rational and the full revival occurs for any wave function of any quantum system after the time ${\displaystyle t/2\pi =100000000}$ which is its maximum exponent and so on that may not be true for all quantum systems or all stationary quantum systems undergo the full and exact revival numerically.

In the system with the rational energies i.e. where the quantum exact full revival exists its existence immediately proves the quantum Poincaré recurrence theorem and the time of the full quantum revival equals to the Poincaré recurrence time. While the rational numbers are dense in real numbers and the arbitrary function of the quantum number can be approximated arbitrarily exactly with Padé approximants with the coefficients of arbitrary decimal precision for the arbitrarily long time each quantum system therefore revives almost exactly. It also means that the Poincaré recurrence and the full revival is mathematically the same thing [5] and it is commonly accepted that the recurrence is called the full revival if it occurs after the reasonable and physically measurable time that is possible to be detected by the realistic apparatus and this happens due to a very special energy spectrum having a large basic energy spacing gap of which the energies are arbitrary (not necessarily harmonic) multiples.

• Poincaré recurrence theorem