Quantum interference as phase space filtering

Authors
Citation
D. Dragoman, Quantum interference as phase space filtering, OPTIK, 112(1), 2001, pp. 31-36
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Apllied Physucs/Condensed Matter/Materiales Science","Optics & Acoustics
Journal title
OPTIK
ISSN journal
00304026 → ACNP
Volume
112
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
31 - 36
Database
ISI
SICI code
0030-4026(2001)112:1<31:QIAPSF>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
A new interpretation of the quantum interference, as a filtering in the pha se space, is proposed. This filtering is applied to the quantum wavefunctio n, considered as an amplitude probability distribution, and is due to the m ismatch of the phase space areas of the quantum system and the experimental set-up. The quantum particle is considered to have physical reality and is distinguished from a classical particle through the inherent impossibility of assigning to it a sharp phase space localizability.