English
Related papers

Related papers: The Ordering Ambiguity

200 papers

The characterization of physical systems requires a comprehensive understanding of quantum effects. One aspect is a proper quantification of the strength of such quantum phenomena. Here, a general convex ordering of quantum states will be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Sperling , W. Vogel

Within the frame of a novel treatment we make a complete mathematical analysis of exactly solvable one-dimensional quantum systems with non-constant mass, involving their ordering ambiguities. This work extends the results recently reported…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B. Gonul , M. Koçak

We report on the effect of the kinetic energy operator ambiguity on the energy spectra of various double heterostructures when the mass of the charge carriers, subjected to a potential, depends on position. The spectra are calculated using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 R. Valencia-Torres , J. García-Ravelo , E. Choreño-Ortiz , J. Avendaño

Quantizing the transfer of energy and momentum between interacting particles, we obtain a quantum impulse equation and relations that the corresponding mechanical power, force and torque satisfy. In addition to the energy-frequency and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 Miroslav Georgiev

We introduce a protocol for a quantum switch in the gravitational field of a spherical mass and determine the time interval required for its realization in the gravity of Earth. One of the agents that perform operations with indefinite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-19 Natália S. Móller , Bruna Sahdo , Nelson Yokomizo

A translation operator is introduced to describe the quantum dynamics of a position-dependent mass particle in a null or constant potential. From this operator, we obtain a generalized form of the momentum operator as well as a unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 R. N. Costa Filho , M. P. Almeida , G. A. Farias , J. S. Andrade

New status in quantum mechanics is connected with recent achievements in the inverse problem. With its help instead of about ten exactly solvable models which serve as a basis of the contemporary education there are infinite (!) number,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

The concept of quantum-mechanical nematic order, which is important in systems such as superconductors, is based on an analogy to classical liquid crystals, where order parameters are obtained through orientational expansions. We generalize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Michael te Vrugt , Raphael Wittkowski

The underlying probabilistic theory for quantum mechanics is non-Kolmogorovian. The order in which physical observables will be important if they are incompatible (non-commuting). In particular, the notion of conditioning needs to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-30 John E. Gough

In this paper we present a complete classification scheme for kinetic energy operators (KEO's) describing a particle endowed with position-dependent mass (PDM). We first present a generalized formulation of KEO's with PDM and show that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 Adel Trabelsi , Fethi Madouri , Abdeldjalil Merdaci , Abdulkarim Almatar

Quantum technologies are developing powerful tools to generate and manipulate coherent superpositions of different energy levels. Envisaging a new generation of energy-efficient quantum devices, here we explore how coherence can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Giulio Chiribella , Yuxiang Yang

The new interpretation of Quantum Mechanics is based on a complex probability theory. An interpretation postulate specifies events which can be observed and it follows that the complex probability of such event is, in fact, a real positive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiri Soucek

To effectively utilize quantum incompatibility as a resource in quantum information processing, it is crucial to evaluate how incompatible a set of devices is. In this study, we propose an ordering to compare incompatibility and reveal its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Kensei Torii , Ryo Takakura , Ryotaro Imamura

We present a new interpretation of the terms superposition, entanglement, and measurement that appear in quantum mechanics. We hypothesize that the structure of the wave function for a quantum system at the sub-Planck scale has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-10 Rajendra K Bera , Vikram Menon

Using a position operator obtained for spin 1 particles by the present author and Wigner, we obtain a quantum relativistic result for the hidden momentum force experienced by particles with structure. In particular, our result applies to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 R. F. O'Connell

We study the quantum backflow problem in the noncommutative plane. In particular, we have considered a charged particle with and without an oscillator interaction with noncommuting momentum operators and examined angular momentum backflow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-29 V. D. Paccoia , O. Panella , P. Roy

Quantum coherence, the ability to control the phases in superposition states is a resource, and it is of crucial importance, therefore, to understand how it is consumed in use. It has been suggested that catalytic coherence is possible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Joan A. Vaccaro , Sarah Croke , Stephen M. Barnett

Researchers have long been aiming to understand how the characteristics of Quantum Theory and General Relativity combine to account for regimes in their interface. One reason why this is a hard task is how differently the theories approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Bruna Sahdo

Relativistic dynamics with energy and momentum resricted to an anti-de-Sitter space is presented, specifically in the introduction of coordiate operators conjugate to such momenta. Definition of functions of these operators, their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Myron Bander

It is known that the Schroedinger equation may be derived from a hydrodynamic model in which the Lagrangian position coordinates of a continuum of particles represent the quantum state. Using Routh\s method of ignorable coordinates it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-23 Peter Holland