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Transient increase of high momenta in quantum wave‐packet collisions
Author(s) -
Brouard S.,
Muga J.G.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
annalen der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1521-3889
pISSN - 0003-3804
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1521-3889(199812)7:7/8<679::aid-andp679>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - physics , wave packet , transient (computer programming) , momentum (technical analysis) , quantum , quantum mechanics , quantum electrodynamics , finance , computer science , economics , operating system
We study the transient increase of the upper tail of the momentum distribution in quantum wave‐packet collisions with an analytically solvable model; in particular its dependence with the barrier strength and incident momentum. This effect is a classically forbidden, universal feature of all quantum collisions.