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Energy Transfer in Scattering by Rotating Potentials

Volker Enss, Vadim Kostrykin, Robert Schrader

math-pharXiv:math-ph/0112009

Abstract

Quantum mechanical scattering theory is studied for time-dependent Schroedinger operators, in particular for particles in a rotating potential. Under various assumptions about the decay rate at infinity we show uniform boundedness in time for the kinetic energy of scattering states, existence and completeness of wave operators, and existence of a conserved quantity under scattering. In a simple model we determine the energy transfered to a particle by a collision with a rotating blade.

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