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Fejer average and the short term behaviors of a wave packet in infinite square well

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The first two period behaviors of a quantum wave packet in an infinite square well potential is studied. First, the short term behavior of expectation value of a quantity on an equally weighted wave packet (EWWP) is in classical limit proved to reproduce the Fej'{e}r average of the Fourier series decomposition of the corresponding classical quantity. Second, in order to best mimic the classical behavior, a nice relation between number NN of stationary states in the EWWP with the average quantum number nn as NnN\thickapprox \sqrt{n} is revealed. Third, since the Fej\'{e}r average can only approximate the classical quantity, it carries an uncertainty which in large quantum number case is almost the same as the quantum uncertainty.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0011048,
  title  = {Fejer average and the short term behaviors of a wave packet in infinite square well},
  author = {Quan-Hui Liu and Wei-Hong Qi and Li-Ping Fu and Bambi Hu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0011048},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Revtex, 4 pages, 4 figures