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Opposite momenta lead to opposite directions

1999/10/31 by Asher Peres · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1119/1.1285946

published as Am. J. Phys. 68 (2000) 991 · 3 pages LaTeX, submitted to American Journal of Physics

arxiv created 1999/11/01 · openalex publication_date 2000/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

When a particle decays into two fragments, the wavefunctions of the latter are spherical shells with expanding radii. In spite of this spherical configuration, the two particles can be detected only in opposite directions.

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