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We consider time-dependent Gaussian wave packet solutions of the Schrodinger equation (with arbitrary initial central position, x_0, and momentum, p_0, for an otherwise free-particle, but with an infinite wall at x=0, so-called bouncing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Belloni , M. A. Doncheski , R. W. Robinett

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

We derive an exact analytical solution to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for transmission of a Gaussian wave packet through an arbitrary potential of finite range. We consider the situation where the initial Gaussian wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Sergio Cordero , Gaston Garcia-Calderon

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 present some physically interesting, in general non-stationary, one-dimensional solutions to the nonlinear phase modification of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation proposed recently. The solutions include a coherent state, a phase-modified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Waldemar Puszkarz

We examine an extension to the theory of Gaussian wave packet dynamics in a one-dimensional potential by means of a sequence of time dependent displacement and squeezing transformations. Exact expressions for the quantum dynamics are found,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Garraway

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

An effective operational approach to quantum mechanics is to focus on the evolution of wave-packets, for which the wave-function can be seen in the semi-classical regime as representing a classical motion dressed with extra degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Etera R. Livine

Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jiří J. L. Vaníček

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 discuss the concept of energy packets in respect to the energy transported by electromagnetic waves and we demonstrate that this physical quantity can be used in physical problems involving relativistic effects. This refined concept…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Popescu , Bernhard Rothenstein

We present a method to calculate exact dynamics of a wave-packet in a quantum two-state problem with Dirac delta coupling. The advantage of our method is that the calculations are done in the time domain. Hence inverting the solutions from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Saravanan Rajendran , Aniruddha Chakraborty

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

The structure of time-dependent Gaussian solutions for the Kostin equation in dissipative quantum mechanics is analyzed. Expanding the generic external potential near the center of mass of the wave packet, one conclude that: the center of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Haas , J. M. F. Bassalo , D. G. da Silva , A. B. Nassar , M. Cattani

In this paper, we reformulate the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation in the presence of electromagnetic field by the Gaussian wave packets transform. With this approach, the highly oscillatory Schr\"odinger equation is equivalently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Zhennan Zhou , Giovanni Russo

Transport and scattering phenomena in open quantum-systems with a continuous energy spectrum are conveniently solved using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. In the time-dependent picture, the evolution of an initially localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Tobias Kramer

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 article deals with the description of the statistical behavior of Gaussian packets on a metric graph. Semiclassical asymptotics of solutions of the Cauchy problem for the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with initial data concentrated in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 V. L. Chernyshev , A. A. Tolchennikov

In this article we present an exact and unified description of wave-packet dynamics in various 2D systems in presence of a transverse magnetic field. We consider an initial minimum-uncertainty Gaussian wave-packet, and find that its long…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Ashutosh Singh , Tutul Biswas , Tarun Kanti Ghosh , Amit Agarwal

An exact solution of the homogeneous wave equation, which was found previously, is treated from the point of view of continuous wavelet analysis (CWA). If time is a fixed parameter, the solution represents a new multidimensional mother…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria V Perel , Mikhail S Sidorenko
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