Physical Review

Expansion of Wave Packets

Daniel S. Ling

Published Oct 1, 1954• 0 citations

Abstract

The Fourier coefficients of a wave packet are proved to be equal to the coefficients obtained when the wave packet is expanded in terms of a set of functions appropriate to a scattering problem.Received 16 April 1954DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.96.216©1954 American Physical Society

DOI: 10.1103/physrev.96.216

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