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The free expansion of a Gaussian wavepacket is a problem commonly discussed in undergraduate quantum classes by directly solving the time-dependent Schrodinger equation as a differential equation. In this work, we provide an alternative way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Alessandro M. Orjuela , J. K. Freericks

We study evolution of a quantum particle in a harmonic potential whose position and momentum are repeatedly monitored. A back-action of measuring devices is accounted for. Our model utilizes a generalized measurement corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Filip Gampel , Mariusz Gajda

We analyze the problem of one dimensional quantum particle falling in a constant gravitational field, also known as the {\it bouncing ball}, employing a semiclassical approach known as momentous effective quantum mechanics. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Guillermo Chacon-Acosta , Hector Hernandez-Hernandez , Mercedes Velazquez

We investigate the time evolution of momentum and position uncertainties for wave packets of arbitrary shape in at most quadratic potentials. We consider all possible cases of potentials and initial conditions. Doing so we see that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Natascha Riahi

Using a density matrix description in space we study the evolution of wavepackets in a fluctuating space-time background. We assume that space-time fluctuations manifest as classical fluctuations of the metric. From the non-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 E. Göklü , C. Lämmerzahl , A. Camacho , A. Macias

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 Schrodinger equation based on the de Broglie wave is the most fundamental equation of the quantum mechanics. There can be no doubt about it's prediction validity. However, the probabilistic interpretation on the quantum mechanics has…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Shin-ichi Inage

We study a special kind of semiclassical limit of quantum dynamics on a circle and in a box (infinite potential well with hard walls) as the Planck constant tends to zero and time tends to infinity. The results give detailed information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 A. S. Trushechkin , I. V. Volovich

It is shown that the Schrodinger equation is a byproduct of more deterministic Boltzmann-like equation. All physical information is derived from the solution of this equation, which is a function of space and momentum. The additional terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ghorbanzadeh

We discuss the time evolution of the wave function which is solution of a stochastic Schroedinger equation describing the dynamics of a free quantum particle subject to spontaneous localizations in space. We prove global existence and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-26 Angelo Bassi , Detlef Duerr , Martin Kolb

The time-independent Schroedinger and Klein-Gordon equations - as well as any other Helmholtz-like equation - were recently shown to be associated with exact sets of ray-trajectories (coupled by a "Wave Potential" function encoded in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Adriano Orefice , Raffaele Giovanelli , Domenico Ditto

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

The numerical treatment of quantum mechanics in the semi-classical regime is known to be computationally demanding, due to the highly oscillatory behaviour of the wave function and its large spatial extension. A recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Christoph Nölle

We investigate the dynamics of a charged particle interacting with a multimode quantized electromagnetic field and obtain an analytic solution for the full electron--field system. This framework enables the calculation of position…

Kucha{\v{r}} showed that the quantum dynamics of (1 polarization) cylindrical wave solutions to vacuum general relativity is determined by that of a free axially-symmetric scalar field along arbitrary axially-symmetric foliations of a fixed…

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We consider a charged particle driven by a time-dependent flux threading a quantum ring. The dynamics of the charged particle is investigated using classical treatment, Fourier expansion technique, time-evolution method, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Pi-Gang Luan , Chi-Shung Tang

With an apparent delay of over one century with respect to the development of standard Analytical Mechanics, but still in fully classical terms, the behavior of classical monochromatic wave beams in stationary media is shown to be ruled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Adriano Orefice , Raffaele Giovanelli , Domenico Ditto

We present a pedagogical discussion on the time evolution of a Gaussian neutrino wave packet in free space. A common treatment is to keep momentum terms up to the quadratic order in the expansion of the energy-momentum relation so that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-27 Cheng-Hsien Li , Yong-Zhong Qian

A time dependent variational approach is used to derive the equations of motion for the \lambda \phi^4 model. The simultaneous evolution of the quantum fluctuations and of the classical part of the field is considered in a lattice of 1+1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Fábio L. Braghin , Fernando S. Navarra