Probability backflow and a new dimensionless quantum number

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/6/040zbMath0837.47050OpenAlexW2151373263MaRDI QIDQ4861966

G. F. Melloy, A. J. Bracken

Publication date: 23 January 1996

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/27/6/040

zbMATH Keywords

Hermitian operatorSchrödinger's equationPlanck's constantnon- positivity of Wigner's density functionpure states of a free particle in non-relativistic quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

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