The Particle in the box: Intermode traces in the propagator
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Characteristic structures such as canals and ridges --intermode traces-- emerge in the spacetime representation of the probability distribution of a particle in a one-dimensional box. We show that the corresponding propagator already contains these structures. We relate their visibility to the factorization property of the initial wave packet.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9804015,
title = {The Particle in the box: Intermode traces in the propagator},
author = {I. Marzoli and I. Bialynicki-Birula and O. M. Friesch and A. E. Kaplan and and W. P. Schleich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9804015},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 2 figures. It will appear in the Proc. of the PRL Golden Jubilee Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Computational Physics (Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi)