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Any pure quantum state can be equivalently represented by means of its wave function psi(q) or of the Fermi function g_F(q,p), with q and p coordinates and conjugate momenta of the system under investigation.We show that a Gaussian wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Giuliano Benenti , Giuliano Strini

Solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation are mapped to other solutions for a (possibly) different potential by so-called form-preserving transformations. These time-dependent transformations of the space and time coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Mustafa Amin , Mason Daub , Mark A. Walton

In order to study quantum dynamics of the FRW-universe of closed type, definitions of velocity, Hubble function and duration of the evolved universe are introduced into cosmology. The proposed definitions are characterized by high stability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-23 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schroedinger's equation in one spatial dimension with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function $V$ and a smooth function…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexander B. Watson , Michael I. Weinstein

We study the dynamics of the classical and quantum mechanical scattering of a wave packet from an oscillating barrier. Our main focus is on the dependence of the transmission coefficient on the initial energy of the wave packet for a wide…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. K. Papachristou , E. Katifori , F. K. Diakonos , V. Constantoudis , E. Mavrommatis

By using the multipolar gauge it is shown that the quantum mechanics of an electrically charged particle moving in a prescribed classical electromagnetic field (wave mechanics) may be expressed in a manner that is gauge invariant, except…

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

This paper presents a global optimization approach to quantum mechanics, which describes the most fundamental dynamics of the universe. It suggests that the wave-like behavior of (sub)atomic particles could be the critical characteristic of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaofei Huang

In this paper, we present a variational treatment of the linear dependence for a non-orthogonal time-dependent basis set in solving the Schr\"odinger equation. The method is based on: i) the definition of a linearly independent working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Loïc Joubert-Doriol

Using classical statistics, Schrodinger equation in quantum mechanics is derived from complex space model. Phase-space probability amplitude, that can be defined on classical point of view, has connections to probability amplitude in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kiyoung Kim

A fast and stable method is formulated to compute the time evolution of a wavefunction by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation. This method is a real space/real time evolution method implemented by several…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Naoki Watanabe , Masaru Tsukada

The sensitivity of the evolution of quantum uncertainties to the choice of the initial conditions is shown via a complex nonlinear Riccati equation leading to a reformulation of quantum dynamics. This sensitivity is demonstrated for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hans Cruz , Dieter Schuch , Octavio Castaños , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

It is shown that the time-dependent equations (Schr\"odinger and Dirac) for a quantum system can be always derived from the time-independent equation for the larger object of the system interacting with its environment, in the limit that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 John S Briggs , Jan M Rost

We reduce Dirac's spinor formalism for a spin 1/2 particle to a complex wavefunction description in curved spacetimes. We consider a localized fermionic particle in curved spacetimes and perform an expansion in terms of the acceleration and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-07 T. Rick Perche , Jonas Neuser

We introduce a new class of quantum models with time-dependent Hamiltonians of a special scaling form. By using a couple of time-dependent unitary transformations, the time evolution of these models is expressed in terms of related systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Samaj

We present a geometrical way of understanding the dynamics of wavefunctions in a free space, using the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics. By visualizing the Wigner function, the spreading, shearing, the so-called "negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Yuxi Liu

An analytical approach to quantum mechanical wave packet dynamics of laser-driven particles is presented. The time-dependent Schroedinger equation is solved for an electron exposed to a linearly polarized plane wave of arbitrary shape. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Verschl , C. H. Keitel

I consider a quantum system that possesses key features of quantum shape dynamics and show that the evolution of wave-packets will become increasingly classical at late times and tend to evolve more and more like an expanding classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-21 Tim A. Koslowski

We consider wave packet propagation in a quantum wire with either an embedded antidot or an embedded parallel double open quantum dot under the influence of a uniform magnetic field. The magnetoconductance and the time evolution of an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-29 Gunnar Thorgilsson , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

Quantum mechanics is derived as an application of the method of maximum entropy. No appeal is made to any underlying classical action principle whether deterministic or stochastic. Instead, the basic assumption is that in addition to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Ariel Caticha

We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong