The Particle in the box: Intermode traces in the propagator

Marzoli, I.; Bialynicki-Birula, I.; Friesch, O. M.; Kaplan, A. E.; Schleich, and W. P.

The Particle in the box: Intermode traces in the propagator

Authors

Marzoli, I.

Bialynicki-Birula, I.

Friesch, O. M.

Kaplan, A. E.

Schleich, and W. P.

Description

Characteristic structures such as canals and ridges --intermode traces-- emerge in the spacetime representation of the probability distribution of a particle in a one-dimensional box. We show that the corresponding propagator already contains these structures. We relate their visibility to the factorization property of the initial wave packet.
10 pages, 2 figures. It will appear in the Proc. of the PRL Golden Jubilee Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Computational Physics (Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi)