Wavepacket approach to particle diffraction by thin targets: Quantum trajectories and arrival times

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.10.006zbMATH Open1237.81006arXiv1111.7116OpenAlexW2016074799MaRDI QIDQ765791FDOQ765791

Authors: N. Delis, C. Efthymiopoulos, G. Contopoulos 

Publication date: 22 March 2012

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

Abstract: We develop a wavepacket approach to the diffraction of charged particles by a thin material target and we use the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectories to study various phenomena in this context. We find the form of the separator, i.e.the limit between the domains of prevalence of the ingoing and outgoing quantum flow. The structure of the quantum-mechanical currents in the neighborhood of the separator implies the formation of an array of emph{quantum vortices} (nodal point - X point complexes). We show how the deformation of the separatior near Bragg angles explains the emergence of a diffraction pattern by the de Broglie - Bohm trajectories. We calculate the arrival time distributions for particles scattered at different angles. The predictions of the de Broglie - Bohm theory for $DeltaT$ turn to be different from estimates of the same quantity using other theories on time observables like the sum-over-histories or the Kijowski approach. We propose an experimental setup aiming to test such predictions. Finally, we explore the semiclassical limit of short wavelength and short quantum coherence lengths, and demonstrate how, in this case, results with the de Broglie - Bohm trajectories are similar to the classical results of Rutherford scattering.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7116

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zbMATH Keywords

de Broglie-Bohm trajectoriesparticle diffraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65)

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