Linear momentum quantization in periodic structures
Abstract
Interference by a periodic structure can be explained in terms of a quantization rule for the linear momentum formulated by Duane in 1923. A straightforward derivation of this rule, using raising and lowering operator techniques, is given both for one and more dimensional systems. The implications of these results for the conceptual exposition of quantum and wave mechanics are discussed.
- Publication:
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Physica
- Pub Date:
- 1967
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0031-8914(67)90138-3
- Bibcode:
- 1967Phy....35...97V