Extended Wigner function formalism for the spatial propagation of particles with internal degrees of freedom
Quantum Physics
2014-05-09 v1 Atomic and Molecular Clusters
Atomic Physics
Chemical Physics
Abstract
An extended Wigner function formalism is introduced for describing the quantum dynamics of particles with internal degrees of freedom in the presence of spatially inhomogeneous fields. The approach is used for quantitative simulations of molecular beam experiments involving space-spin entanglement, such as the Stern-Gerlach and the Rabi experiment. The formalism allows a graphical visualization of entanglement and decoherence processes.
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@article{arxiv.1405.1886,
title = {Extended Wigner function formalism for the spatial propagation of particles with internal degrees of freedom},
author = {Marcel Utz and Malcolm H Levitt and Nathan Cooper and Hendrik Ulbricht},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1886},
year = {2014}
}
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9 pages, 4 figures, Comments welcome