An ``Airy gun: self-accelerating solutions of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation in vacuum

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2012.10.041zbMath1396.81083OpenAlexW2062755643MaRDI QIDQ1786017

Sergei K. Suslov, A. S. Makhalov

Publication date: 24 September 2018

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2012.10.041

zbMATH Keywords

Wigner functionSchrödinger equationAiry functionsdiffraction-free optical beamsnonspreading wave packetssecond Painlevé transcendents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies (34M55) Quantum optics (81V80) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10)

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