Diffraction in Time

1 November 1952

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B

Vol. 88 (3) , 625-631
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.88.625

Abstract

In a previous note a dynamical description of resonance scattering was given, and transient terms appeared in the wave function describing the process. To understand the physical significance of these terms, the transient effects that appear when a shutter is opened are discussed in this paper. For a nonrelativistic beam of particles, the transient current has a close mathematical resemblance with the intensity of light in the Fresnel diffraction by a straight edge. This is the reason for calling the transient phenomena by the name of diffraction in time.

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