Growth of Sobolev norms in quasi integrable quantum systems

Abstract: We prove an abstract result giving a $\langle t \rangle^\varepsilon$ upper bound on the growth of the Sobolev norms of a time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of the form ${i} \dot \psi = H_0 \psi + V (t)\psi$. Here $H_0$ is assumed to be the Hamiltonian of a steep quantum integrable system and to be a pseudodifferential operator of order ${\tt d} > 1$; $V (t)$ is a time-dependent family of pseudodifferential operators, unbounded, but of order ${\tt b} < {\tt d}$. The abstract theorem is then applied to perturbations of the quantum anharmonic oscillators in dimension 2 and to perturbations of the Laplacian on a manifold with integrable geodesic flow, and in particular Zoll manifolds, rotation invariant surfaces and Lie groups. The proof is based on a quantum version of the proof of the classical Nekhoroshev theorem.