Analysis of superoscillatory wave functions

DOI10.1063/1.1825076zbMATH Open1076.81020arXivquant-ph/0405065OpenAlexW3105930573MaRDI QIDQ3024166FDOQ3024166

Authors: Matt S. Calder, Achim Kempf 

Publication date: 30 June 2005

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

Abstract: Surprisingly, differentiable functions are able to oscillate arbitrarily faster than their highest Fourier component would suggest. The phenomenon is called superoscillation. Recently, a practical method for calculating superoscillatory functions was presented and it was shown that superoscillatory quantum mechanical wave functions should exhibit a number of counter-intuitive physical effects. Following up on this work, we here present more general methods which allow the calculation of superoscillatory wave functions with custom-designed physical properties. We give concrete examples and we prove results about the limits to superoscillatory behavior. We also give a simple and intuitive new explanation for the exponential computational cost of superoscillations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405065

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other functions defined by series and integrals (33E20) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16)

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