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View SchemaMultimode Interference: Identifying Channels and Ridges in Quantum Probability Distributions
| Authors | Ross C. O'Connell, Will Loinaz |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0403032 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403032 |
Abstract
The multimode interference technique is a simple way to study the interference patterns found in many quantum probability distributions. We demonstrate that this analysis not only explains the existence of so-called "quantum carpets," but can explain the spatial distribution of channels and ridges in the carpets. With an understanding of the factors that govern these channels and ridges we have a limited ability to produce a particular pattern of channels and ridges by carefully choosing the weighting coefficients c_{n} . We also use these results to demonstrate why fractional revivals of initial wavepackets are themselves composed of many smaller packets.
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