A minimal uncertainty product for one dimensional semiclassical wave packets

zbMATH Open1319.81053arXiv1301.5956MaRDI QIDQ5416331FDOQ5416331

Authors: George A. Hagedorn 

Publication date: 19 May 2014

Abstract: Although real, normalized Gaussian wave packets minimize the product of position and momentum uncertainties, generic complex normalized Gaussian wave packets do not. We prove they minimize an alternative product of uncertainties that correspond to variables that are phase space rotations of position and momentum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.5956

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicssemiclassical wave packets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Coherent states (81R30) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30)

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