What Determines the Spreading of a Wave Packet?

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.79.1959MaRDI QIDQ4492439zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9611006

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic scalingeigenfunctionsenergy spectrummultifractal dimensionsspreading wave packet

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: The multifractal dimensions D2^mu and D2^psi of the energy spectrum and eigenfunctions, resp., are shown to determine the asymptotic scaling of the width of a spreading wave packet. For systems where the shape of the wave packet is preserved the k-th moment increases as t^(k*beta) with beta=D2^mu/D2^psi, while in general t^(k*beta) is an optimal lower bound. Furthermore, we show that in d dimensions asymptotically in time the center of any wave packet decreases spatially as a power law with exponent D_2^psi - d and present numerical support for these results.

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