Wave Packet Sizes in Quantum Mechanical Scatterings: New Perspective

2025/09/04 by Kenzo Ishikawa, Ishikawa, Kenzo, O. Jinnouchi +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.04539

openalex publication_date 2025/09/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Normalized wave packets express particles in nature. Their sizes are determined by their interactions with matter, and depend on environments. Nevertheless, these characterize scatterings processes in realistic situations, and govern the absolute values of transition probabilities. This paper studies the wave packet sizes and their implications.

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