About the quantum Talbot effect on the sphere
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Other character sums and Gauss sums (11T24) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Dynamical systems involving maps of the circle (37E10) Fourier series in special orthogonal functions (Legendre polynomials, Walsh functions, etc.) (42C10) Stable homotopy of spheres (55Q45) Orbital mechanics (70M20) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)
Abstract: The Schr"odinger equation on a circle with an initially localized profile of the wave function is known to give rise to revivals or replications, where the probability density of the particle is partially reproduced at rational times. As a consequence of the convolutional form of the general solution it is deduced that a piecewise constant initial wave function remains piecewise constant at rational times as well. For a sphere instead, it is known that this piecewise revival does not necessarily occur, indeed the wave function becomes singular at some specific locations at rational times. It may be desirable to study the same problem, but with an initial condition being a localized Dirac delta instead of a piecewise constant function, and this is the purpose of the present work. By use of certain summation formulas for the Legendre polynomials together with properties of Gaussian sums, it is found that revivals on the sphere occur at rational times for some specific locations, and the structure of singularities of the resulting wave function is characterized in detail. In addition, a partial study of the regions where the density vanishes, named before valley of shadows in the context of the circle, is initiated here. It is suggested that, differently from the circle case, these regions are not lines but instead some specific set of points along the sphere. A conjecture about the precise form of this set is stated and the intuition behind it is clarified.
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