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A quantum particle in a box with moving walls

Benedetto MilitelloAntonino MessinaAndrzej KossakowskiGiuseppe MarmoPaolo FacchiSaverio PascazioFabio AnzaSara Di Martino

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Statistics and ProbabilitySettore FIS/02 - Fisica Teorica Modelli E Metodi MatematiciDifferential equationFOS: Physical sciencesGeneral Physics and AstronomySettore FIS/03 - Fisica Della MateriaSchrödinger equationsymbols.namesakeBoundary ConditionMathematical PhysicsQuantum Mechanics; Boundary Conditions; Quantum Zeno effect; Time-dependent HamiltoniansPhysicsQuantum PhysicsQuantum particlePartial differential equationOperator (physics)Statistical and Nonlinear PhysicsMathematical Physics (math-ph)Quantum MechanicWave equationClassical mechanicsModeling and SimulationsymbolsQuantum Zeno effectQuantum Physics (quant-ph)Time-dependent HamiltoniansSchrödinger's cat

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We analyze the non-relativistic problem of a quantum particle that bounces back and forth between two moving walls. We recast this problem into the equivalent one of a quantum particle in a fixed box whose dynamics is governed by an appropriate time-dependent Schroedinger operator.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-08-20
10.1088/1751-8113/46/36/365301http://hdl.handle.net/10447/93226