arXiv:1309.5745

Quantum beats of the rigid rotor

K. Kowalski, Jakub Rembieliński

Published Sep 23, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

The dynamics is investigated of a free particle on a sphere (rigid rotor or rotator) that is initially in a coherent state. The instability of coherent states with respect to the free evolution leads to nontrivial time-development of averages of observables representing the position of a particle on a sphere that can be interpreted as quantum beats.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1309.5745

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