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Projectile motion of surface gravity water wave packets: An analogy to quantum mechanics

Quantum Physics 2021-05-05 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

We study phase contributions of wave functions that occur in the evolution of Gaussian surface gravity water wave packets with nonzero initial momenta propagating in the presence and absence of an effective external linear potential. Our approach takes advantage of the fact that in contrast to matter waves, water waves allow us to measure both their amplitudes and phases.

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@article{arxiv.2101.05839,
  title  = {Projectile motion of surface gravity water wave packets: An analogy to quantum mechanics},
  author = {Georgi Gary Rozenman and Matthias Zimmermann and Maxim A. Efremov and Wolfgang P. Schleich and William B. Case and Daniel M. Greenberger and Lev Shemer and Ady Arie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.05839},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 table, 2 figures. Accepted to EPJ-ST, not published yet