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Mechanical Analogue for Schrodinger's Matter-Wave Equation

Quantum Physics 2024-02-20 v3

Abstract

In this paper we first show that, there exists a precise mechanical analogue for the one-dimensional version of Schrodinger's original 4th-order, real-valued matter-wave equation. It is a composite, flexural-shear beam supported on distributed elastic springs. Nevertheless, in spite of this finding, this paper shows that it is not possible to construct a physically realizable mechanical analogue for Schrodinger's 2nd-order, complex valued matter-wave equation which yields lower eigenvalues; therefore, lower energy levels than these predicted with his original 4th-order, real-valued matter-wave equation.

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@article{arxiv.2312.05581,
  title  = {Mechanical Analogue for Schrodinger's Matter-Wave Equation},
  author = {Nicos Makris},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.05581},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

We are working on a more general model