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View SchemaNonclassical evolution of a free particle
| Authors | Lars M. Johansen |
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| Categories | |
| 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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