First-order excitation in a linearly expanding infinite well

ID: first-order-excitation-in-a-linearly-expanding-infinite-well

For and , first-order excitation out of the instantaneous ground state has the displayed oscillatory integral. Its lower endpoint means the limit of a ground-state preparation at positive time and positive width; no normalized state exists in a zero-width well. Substitution makes convergence explicit, and as . Large excitation invalidates the first-order approximation.

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