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The infinite potential well with moving walls

2017/03/15 by Kieran Cooney, Cooney, Kieran
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1703.05282

openalex publication_date 2017/03/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this work the evolution of a wavefunction in an infinite potential well with time dependent boundaries is investigated. Previous methods for wells with walls moving at a constant velocity are summarised. These methods are extended to wells with slowly accelerating walls. The location and time of the revivals in the well of the initial wavefunction are derived using Jacobi's elliptic theta function.

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