TY - JOUR T1 - Semiclassical analysis of constrained quantum systems JF - J. Phys. A 37 (2004) 5605-5624 Y1 - 2004 A1 - Gianfausto Dell'Antonio A1 - Lucattilio Tenuta AB - We study the dynamics of a quantum particle in R^(n+m) constrained by a strong potential force to stay within a distance of order hbar (in suitable units) from a smooth n-dimensional submanifold M. We prove that in the semiclassical limit the evolution of the wave function is approximated in norm, up to terms of order hbar^(1/2), by the evolution of a semiclassical wave packet centred on the trajectory of the corresponding classical constrained system. PB - IOP Publishing UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2997 U1 - 1336 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Mathematical Physics ER -