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arxiv: 1208.0845 · v1 · pith:5ZGBDL7Jnew · submitted 2012-08-03 · 🪐 quant-ph

Study the dynamics of the nonspreading Airy packets from the time evolution operator

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Berry and Balazs showed that an initial Airy packet Ai(b x) under time evolution is nonspreading in free space and also in a homogeneous time-varying linear potential V(x,t)=-F(t) x. We find both results can be derived from the time evolution operator U(t). We show that U(t) can be decomposed into ordered product of operators and is essentially a shift operator in x; hence, Airy packets evolve without distortion. By writing the Hamiltonian H as H=H_b+H_i, where H_b is the Hamiltonian such that Ai(b x) is its eigenfunction. Then, H_i is shown to be as an interacting Hamiltonian that causes the Airy packet into an accelerated motion of which the acceleration a=(-H_i/( x))/m. Nonspreading Airy packet then acts as a classical particle of mass m, and the motion of it can be described classically by H_i.

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