LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Spacetime structures in simple quantum systems
Abstract
Recently W Kinzel [1995 Phys. Bl. 51 1190] has argued that even simple quantum systems can exhibit surprising phenomena. As an example he presented the formation of canals and ridges in the time-dependent probability density of a particle caught in a square well with infinitely high walls. We show how these structures emerge from the wavefunction and present a simple derivation of their location in the spacetime continuum.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics A Mathematical General
- Pub Date:
- May 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0305-4470/30/9/004
- Bibcode:
- 1997JPhA...30L.277G