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Nonclassical evolution of a free particle

Authors	Lars M. Johansen
Categories	quant-ph
ArXiv ID	quant-ph/9804002
URL	https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9804002

Abstract

A conditional kinetic energy is defined in terms of the Wigner distribution. It is shown that this kinetic energy may become negative for negative Wigner distributions. A free particle wave packet with negative kinetic energy will spread in a nonclassical manner.

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