Modeling quantum mechanical double slit interference via anomalous diffusion: independently variable slit widths

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2013.02.006MaRDI QIDQ1672972zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Mesa Pascasio, Siegfried Fussy, Herbert Schwabl, Gerhard Grössing

Publication date 11 September 2018

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2885

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsfinite differencesballistic diffusionGaussian dispersionzero-point field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dispersion theory, dispersion relations arising in quantum theory (81U30) Classical dynamic and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C05)

Abstract: Based on a re-formulation of the classical explanation of quantum mechanical Gaussian dispersion (Groessing et al. 2010) as well as interference of two Gaussians (Groessing et al. 2012), we present a new and more practical way of their simulation. The quantum mechanical "decay of the wave packet" can be described by anomalous sub-quantum diffusion with a specific diffusivity varying in time due to a particle's changing thermal environment. In a simulation of the double-slit experiment with different slit widths, the phase with this new approach can be implemented as a local quantity. We describe the conditions of the diffusivity and, by connecting to wave mechanics, we compute the exact quantum mechanical intensity distributions, as well as the corresponding trajectory distributions according to the velocity field of two Gaussian wave packets emerging from a double-slit. We also calculate probability density current distributions, including situations where phase shifters affect a single slit's current, and provide computer simulations thereof.

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