Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2009-08-31
Annals of Physics 325, 2193 (2010)
Physics
Quantum Physics
revised version, 13 pages, 11 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.aop.2010.05.009
Quantum interference is investigated within the complex quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism. As shown in a previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250401 (2009)], complex quantum trajectories display helical wrapping around stagnation tubes and hyperbolic deflection near vortical tubes, these structures being prominent features of quantum caves in space-time Argand plots. Here, we further analyze the divergence and vorticity of the quantum momentum function along streamlines near poles, showing the intricacy of the complex dynamics. Nevertheless, despite this behavior, we show that the appearance of the well-known interference features (on the real axis) can be easily understood in terms of the rotation of the nodal line in the complex plane. This offers a unified description of interference as well as an elegant and practical method to compute the lifetime for interference features, defined in terms of the average wrapping time, i.e., considering such features as a resonant process.
Chou Chia-Chun
Miret-Artes Salvador
Sanz Angel S.
Wyatt Robert E.
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