Boundary conditions for time-dependent quantum slits

Adam J. Makowski, Piotr Pepłowski

Qiankai Yao, Guang-Wen Ma, Chen Xiu-Fang +1 more

Matěj Hudec

In this thesis we study the difraction of a particle on a slit, focusing on the resonance effects. The two-dimensional model containing a delta-function barrier with variable height which represents the slit is solved on a belt with periodic boundary condition. In most cases we use the numerical solution of the problem using our program. The results are compared with elastic approximations. We study the characteristics of the resonances in detail, the dependence of their existence, energy and height on the parameters of the slit, and the relation between resonances and bound states. The last chapter is devoted to the problem of spreading the belt in order to get the results that describe the scattering process on the whole plain. We suggest two ap- proaches of description of this process and demonstrate that the appearance of the resonances is not limited to the given boundary condition. 1

Mathieu Beau, T. C. Dorlas

We study the quantum slit diffraction problem in three dimensions. In the treatment of diffraction of particles by a slit, it is usually assumed that the motion perpendicular to the slit is classical. Here we take into account the effect of the quantum nature of the motion perpendicular to the slit using the Green function approach [18]. We treat the diffraction of a Gaussian wave packet for general boundary conditions on the shutter. The difference between the standard and our three-dimensional slit diffraction models is analogous to the diffraction in time phenomenon introduced in [16]. We derive corrections to the standard formula for the diffraction pattern, and we point out situations in which this might be observable. In particular, we discuss the diffraction in space and time in the presence of gravity.

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