1997/11/25 by Robert Bluhm, Alan Kostelecky, V. Alan Kostelecký +6
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9711061
Talk presented by Robert Bluhm at the Fifth International Wigner Symposium, Vienna, Austria, August, 1997
arxiv created 1997/11/25 · openalex publication_date 1997/11/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present a generic treatment of wave-packet revivals for quantum-mechanical systems. This treatment permits a classification of certain ideal revival types. For example, wave packets for a particle in a one-dimensional box are shown to exhibit perfect revivals. We also examine the revival structure of wave packets for quantum systems with energies that depend on two quantum numbers. Wave packets in these systems exhibit quantum beats in the initial motion as well as new types of long-term revivals. As an example, we consider the revival structure of a particle in a two-dimensional box.