Abstract
We present a graphical example of the interaction picture-time evolution. Our aim is to help students understand in a didactic manner the simplicity that this picture provides. Visualizing the interaction picture unveils its advantages, which are hidden behind the involved mathematics. Specifically, we show that the time evolution of a driven harmonic oscillator in the interaction picture corresponds to a local transformation of a phase space-reference frame into the one that is co-rotating with the Wigner function.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1367-1381 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | European Journal of Physics |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |