Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2007-12-31
Physics
Quantum Physics
6 pages, 4 figures, didactic paper
Scientific paper
10.1119/1.2982628
We discuss four general features of force-free evolution: (1) The spatial spread of any packet changes with time in a very simple way. (2) Over sufficiently short periods of time (whose duration is related to the spread in momentum of the packet) the probability distribution moves but there is little change in shape. (3) After a sufficiently long period (related to the initial spatial spread) the packet settles into a simple form simply related to the momentum distribution in the packet. In this asymptotic regime, the shape of the probability distribution no longer changes except for its scale, which increases linearly with the time. (4) There is an infinite denumerable set of simple wave packets (the Hermite-Gauss packets) that do not change shape as they evolve.
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