Minimal position-velocity uncertainty wave packets in relativistic and non-relativistic quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2009.09.001MaRDI QIDQ1047698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors M. H. Al-Hashimi, U.-J. Wiese

Publication date 5 January 2010

Published in Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5178

zbMATH Keywords

dispersion relationrelativistic wave packetspreading of wave packetsminimum uncertainly wave packetnon-relativistic wave packetposition-velocity uncertainty relationwave packet in expanding universewave packet of zero-mass particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Coherent states (81R30) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

Abstract: We consider wave packets of free particles with a general energy-momentum dispersion relation $E(p)$. The spreading of the wave packet is determined by the velocity $v=p_{p}E$. The position-velocity uncertainty relation $DeltaxDeltavgeq1/2|<p_p^{2}E>|$ is saturated by minimal uncertainty wave packets $$. In addition to the standard minimal Gaussian wave packets corresponding to the non-relativistic dispersion relation $E(p)=p^2/2m$, analytic calculations are presented for the spreading of wave packets with minimal position-velocity uncertainty product for the lattice dispersion relation $E(p)=-cos(pa)/m{a}^2$ as well as for the relativistic dispersion relation $E(p)=sqrt{p}^2+m^2$. The boost properties of moving relativistic wave packets as well as the propagation of wave packets in an expanding Universe are also discussed.

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