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DERIVATION OF EVOLUTION WAVE PACKETS BASED ON SCATTERING WAVE FUNCTIONS FOR ONE DIMENSIONAL POTENTIAL

A Zh. Khachatrian, D R. Voskanyan, V A. Khoecyan

Published Dec 25, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this work a wave process evolution problem in a field of an arbitrary one-dimensional potential is considered. We investigate the wave packets derived based on linear combinations of scattering wave functions taken with magnitudes of state indexes near to resonance tunneling case. It is shown that the wave processes with different parities of asymptotes describe a wave process where the group and phase velocities have opposite directions. The conducted consideration allows to state that the bound states can be interpreted as wave packets of the scattering wave functions to be derived under a certain way.

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THE PRESENT NOTE ANALYSES THE DYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SCATTERING DUE TO A SHORT RANGE POTENTIAL. IN PARTICULAR, IT DEVELOPS A CLASS OF TRANSFORMS THAT ARE USEFUL FOR THIS DYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION. A TIME-DEPENDENT GREEN FUNCTION FOR THE SCATTERING PROCESS IS DISCUSSED, THAT TAKES US FROM THE INITIAL STATE (PLANE WAVE) TO THE FINAL STATE (PLANE PLUS SCATTERED WAVES). THIS GREEN FUNCTION CAN BE USED TO GIVER THE MOTION OF ANY WAVE PACKET THAT INITIALLY WAS OUTSIDE THE POTENTIAL. THE PRESENT PAPER COMPLEMENTS A PREVIOUS DYNAMICAL DESCRIPTION OF A SCATTERING PROCESS, IN WHICH THE INTERACTION WAS REPRESENTED BY APPROPRIATE BOUNDARY.
It is shown that in the case of the one-particle one-dimensional scattering problem for a given time-independent potential, for each state of the whole quantum ensemble of identically prepared particles, there is an unique pair of (subensemble's) solutions to the Schrödinger equation, which, as we postulate, describe separately transmission and reflection: in the case of nonstationary states, for any instant of time, these functions are orthogonal and their sum describes the state of all particles; evolving with constant norms, one of them approaches at late times the transmitted wave packet and another approaches the reflected packet. Both for transmission and reflection, 1) well before and after the scattering event, the average kinetic energy of particles is the same, 2) the average starting point differs, in the general case, from that for all particles. It is shown that for reflection, in the case of symmetric potential barriers, the domain of the motion of particles is bounded by the midpoint of the barrier region. We define (exact and asymptotic) transmission and reflection times and show that the basic results of our formalism can be, in principle, checked experimentally.
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