Scattering of a Gaussian Wave Packet on an Infinite Wall

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Scattering of a Gaussian wavepacket on an infinite wall.

Contributed by: Michael Trott (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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function — view , , or initial position — the initial position of the center of the wave packet initial momentum — the initial momentum of the center of the wave packet initial spread — the initial spread of the wave packet time— time in

As distinct from bound state calculations, at spatial and temporal infinity many more things can happen in quantum mechanical scattering theories: normalization matters, flux versus probability density changes, and so on. This Demonstration treats the simplest possible example, the 1D scattering on a hard wall.

M. Belloni, M. A. Doncheski, R. W. Robinett. http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0408182



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