Generalized uncertainty principle and Gaussian wave packets in discrete quantum phase space

Jang Young Bang

Jang Young Bang, Micheal S. Berger

The properties of quantum mechanics with a discrete phase space are studied. The minimum uncertainty states are found and these states become the Gaussian wave packets in the continuum limit. With a suitably chosen Hamiltonian that gives free particle motion in the continuum limit, it is found that full or approximate periodic time evolution can result. This represents an example of revivals of wave packets that in the continuum limit is the familiar free particle motion on a line. Finally we examine the uncertainty principle for discrete phase space and obtain the correction terms to the continuum case.

David J. Coughtrie

Kornél Sailer, Zoltán Péli, S. Nagy

A projection method is proposed to treat the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for a single particle when the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) generates an ultraviolet (UV) wave-vector cutoff. The existence of a unique coordinate representation called the naive one is derived from the one-parameter family of discrete coordinate representations. In this bandlimited quantum mechanics a continuous potential is reconstructed from discrete sampled values observed by means of a particle in maximally localized states. It is shown that bandlimitation modifies the speed of the center and the spreading time of a Gaussian wave packet moving in free space. Indication is found that GUP accompanied by bandlimitation may cause departures of the low-lying energy levels of a particle in a box from those in ordinary quantum mechanics to be much less suppressed than commonly thought when GUP without bandlimitation is at work.

Claudia M. Sarris, Araceli N. Proto

Jang Young Bang, Micheal S. Berger

The generalized uncertainty principle has been described as a general consequence of incorporating a minimal length from a theory of quantum gravity. We consider a simple quantum mechanical model where the operator corresponding to position has discrete eigenvalues and show how the generalized uncertainty principle results for minimum uncertainty wave packets.