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Separability of Solutions to a Schrödinger Equation

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2014 Chinese Physical Society and IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Wang Wen-Hua et al 2014 Commun. Theor. Phys. 62 205 DOI 10.1088/0253-6102/62/2/06

0253-6102/62/2/205

Abstract

We discuss separability of solutions to a Schrödinger equation that describes a composite quantum system and give some kinds of Hamiltonians H(t) such that the solution to Schrödinger equation induced by H(t) is separable at any time provided that it is separable at t = 0. For example, we prove that if the Hamiltonian H is time-independent and equals to the product PA ⊗ PB of two projections on the subsystems KA and KB, respectively, then the state |ψ(t)〉 of the composite system starting from a separable initial |ψ(0)〉 = |ψA〉 ⊗ |ψB〉 is separable for all t ∈ [0, T] if and only if either |ψA〉 is an eigenstate of PA, or |ψB〉 is an eigenstate of PB.

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