Analysis of superoscillatory wave functions

DOI10.1063/1.1825076MaRDI QIDQ3024166zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matt S. Calder, Achim Kempf

Publication date 30 June 2005

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

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

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)

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.

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