Lévy-Schrödinger wave packets

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/44/16/165305zbMATH Open1214.81085arXiv1006.1833OpenAlexW1864487798MaRDI QIDQ2998065FDOQ2998065

Publication date: 18 May 2011

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

Abstract: We analyze the time--dependent solutions of the pseudo--differential L'evy--Schr"odinger wave equation in the free case, and we compare them with the associated L'evy processes. We list the principal laws used to describe the time evolutions of both the L'evy process densities, and the L'evy--Schr"odinger wave packets. To have self--adjoint generators and unitary evolutions we will consider only absolutely continuous, infinitely divisible L'evy noises with laws symmetric under change of sign of the independent variable. We then show several examples of the characteristic behavior of the L'evy--Schr"odinger wave packets, and in particular of the bi-modality arising in their evolutions: a feature at variance with the typical diffusive uni--modality of both the L'evy process densities, and the usual Schr"odinger wave functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1833

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Processes with independent increments; Lévy processes (60G51) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

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