Quantum carpets woven by Wigner functions
Open Access
- 6 March 2000
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in New Journal of Physics
- Vol. 2 (1) , 4
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/2/1/004
Abstract
The dynamics of many different quantum systems is characterized by a regular net of minima and maxima of probability stretching out in a spacetime representation. We offer an explanation to this phenomenon in terms of the Wigner function. This approach illustrates very clearly the crucial role played by interference.Keywords
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