Anomalous spreading of power-law quantum wave packets

Citation
F. Lillo et Rn. Mantegna, Anomalous spreading of power-law quantum wave packets, PHYS REV L, 84(6), 2000, pp. 1061-1065
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
ISSN journal
00319007 → ACNP
Volume
84
Issue
6
Year of publication
2000
Pages
1061 - 1065
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(20000207)84:6<1061:ASOPQW>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
We introduce power-law tail quantum wave packets. We show that they can be seen as eigenfunctions of a Hamiltonian with a physical potential. We prove that the free evolution of these packets presents an asymptotic decay of t he maximum of the wave packets which is anomalous for an interval of the ch aracterizing power-law exponent. We also prove that the number of finite mo ments of the wave packets is a conserved quantity during the evolution of t he wave packet in the free space.