Classical echoes of quantum boundary conditions
Quantum Physics
2024-10-08 v1
Abstract
We consider a non-relativistic particle in a one-dimensional box with all possible quantum boundary conditions that make the kinetic-energy operator selfadjoint. We determine the Wigner functions of the corresponding eigenfunctions and analyze in detail their classical limit in the high-energy regime. We show that the quantum boundary conditions split into two classes: all local and regular boundary conditions collapse to the same classical boundary condition, while singular non-local boundary conditions slightly persist in the classical limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2404.17430,
title = {Classical echoes of quantum boundary conditions},
author = {Giuliano Angelone and Paolo Facchi and Marilena Ligabò},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.17430},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
25 pages, 12 figures