Classical Analog of Pure-State Quantum Dynamics
- 7 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 54 (1) , 8-10
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.54.8
Abstract
We introduce an analog, in classical phase space, of the fundamental building block of time dependence in quantum mechanics, i.e., the superposition state. Applications to two-level systems and quantum beats illustrate this conceptually pleasing phase-space picture of the phase interference between energy eigenstates which comprises pure-state quantum dynamics.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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