Quantum interference within the complex quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2010.05.009zbMATH Open1198.81115arXiv0909.0045OpenAlexW2090253558MaRDI QIDQ710475FDOQ710475

Authors: Chia-Chun Chou, A. S. Sanz, S. Miret-Artés, Robert E. Wyatt 

Publication date: 19 October 2010

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

Abstract: Quantum interference is investigated within the complex quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. As shown in a previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250401 (2009)], complex quantum trajectories display helical wrapping around stagnation tubes and hyperbolic deflection near vortical tubes, these structures being prominent features of quantum caves in space-time Argand plots. Here, we further analyze the divergence and vorticity of the quantum momentum function along streamlines near poles, showing the intricacy of the complex dynamics. Nevertheless, despite this behavior, we show that the appearance of the well-known interference features (on the real axis) can be easily understood in terms of the rotation of the nodal line in the complex plane. This offers a unified description of interference as well as an elegant and practical method to compute the lifetime for interference features, defined in terms of the average wrapping time, i.e., considering such features as a resonant process.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0045

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum interferencecomplex quantum trajectoryquantum momentum functionquantum cavePólya vector field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton-Jacobi equations in mechanics (70H20) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65)

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