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Using a generalized transfer matrix method we exactly solve the Schr\"odinger equation in a time periodic potential, with discretized Euclidean space-time. The ground state wave function propagates in space and time with an oscillating…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Stefano Galluccio , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Space-time wave packets can propagate invariantly in free space with arbitrary group velocity thanks to the spatio-temporal correlation. Here it is proved that the space-time wave packets are stable in dispersive media as well and free from…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Hao He , Cheng Guo , Meng Xiao

In the context of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, Gaussian wavepacket solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation provide useful physical insight. This is not the case for relativistic quantum mechanics, however, for which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hung-Ming Tsai , Bill Poirier

The propagation of a wave-packet in a nonlinear disordered medium exhibits interesting dynamics. Here, we present an analysis based on the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (Gross-Pitaevskii equation). This problem is directly connected to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-11-07 G. Schwiete , A. M. Finkelstein

Wave-packet scattering from a stationary potential is significantly modified when the wave-packet is subject to an external time-dependent force during the interaction. In the semiclassical limit, wave--packet motion is simply described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 S. Longhi , S. A. R. Horsley , G. Della Valle

Quantum mechanics asserts that a wave packet must inevitably spread as time progresses since the dispersion relation for the quantum waves is assumed to be quadratic in the momentum k. However, this assumption does not consider the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bruce

The nonlinear Schrodinger equation is well known as a universal equation in the study of wave motion. In the context of wave motion at the free surface of an incompressible fluid, the equation accurately predicts the evolution of modulated…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-05 John D. Carter , Christopher W. Curtis , Henrik Kalisch

We discuss the propagation dynamics of nonspreading wave packets. We decompose the Hamiltonian into two parts. The first part is such that wave packets is its instantaneous eigenstate and is therefore irrelevant to the propagation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Chyi-Lung Lin

We discuss some properties of integrals associated with the free particle wave packet, $\psi(x,t),$ which are solutions to the time-dependent Schr$\ddot{o}$dinger equation for a free particle in one dimension. Some noteworthy discussion is…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Alexander E Patkowski

The free Schrodinger equation has constant velocity wavepacket solutions \psi_{\bf v} of the form \psi= f({\bf r} - {\bf v}t) e^{- i m c^2 t / 2}. These solutions are eigenvectors of a momentum operator {\bf \tilde p} which is symmetric in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shaun N. Mosley

In this paper we numerically solve the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for scenarios using wave packets. These examples include the free wave packet, which we use to show the difference between group and phase velocities, the packet…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-07-08 Francisco Guzman-Cajica , Francisco S. Guzman

Unbound wave packets propagating to macroscopic space and time coordinates become proportional to their (Fourier transform) momentum distribution at earlier times whereby the asymptotic coordinates and the initial momenta are connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 James M. Feagin , John S. Briggs

By minimizing the difference between the left- and the right-hand sides of the many-body time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the Slater-determinant wave-function, we derive a non-adiabatic and self-interaction free time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-26 V. U. Nazarov

In this paper we discuss some aspects of the theory of wave packets. We consider a popular non-covariant Gaussian model used in various applications and show that it predicts too slow a longitudinal dispersion rate for relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. V. Naumov

We study the time evolution of wave packets at the mobility edge of disordered non-interacting electrons in two and three spatial dimensions. The results of numerical calculations are found to agree with the predictions of scaling theory.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bodo Huckestein , Rochus Klesse

The dynamics of charge particles described by Gaussian wave packet in monolayer graphene is studied analytically and numerically. We demonstrate that the shape of wave packet at arbitrary time depends on correlation between the initial…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. M. Maksimova , V. Ya. Demikhovskii , E. V. Frolova

We provide simple examples of closed-form Gaussian wavepacket solutions of the free-particle Schrodinger equation in one dimension which exhibit the most general form of the time-dependent spread in position, namely (Delta x_t)^2 = (Delta…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. W. Robinett , M. A. Doncheski , L. C. Bassett

We consider semiclassically scaled Schrodinger equations with an external potential and a highly oscillatory periodic potential. We construct asymptotic solutions in the form of semiclassical wave packets. These solutions are concentrated…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-16 Rémi Carles , Christof Sparber

We consider the propagation of wave packets for a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, with a matrix-valued potential, in the semi-classical limit. For a matrix-valued potential, Strichartz estimates are available under long range assumptions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-03-21 Lysianne Hari

We study the behavior of solitary-wave solutions of some generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with an external potential. The equations have the feature that in the absence of the external potential, they have solutions describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Frohlich , S. Gustafson , B. L. G. Jonsson , I. M. Sigal