Random Phases and Energy Dispersion

• 来源期刊: 中国物理快报（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2003,（7）
• 页码范围: 982-984
• 页数: 3页
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Using 2N + 1 successive stationary states centred at nth, we construct a rectangular wavepacket in which the stationary states are superimposed with the equal weight √2N + 1. With the requirement of the wavepacket to be a quasi-classical state, the number N is determined by minimizing the uncertainty △x△p. Since the stationary state can only be determined to within an arbitrary multiplicative complex phase factor of unit magnitude, a number of N is obtained as a set of the phases are given. For a harmonic oscillator, when all of the phase factors are essentially the same, we have N ≈ [61/3n2/3] with [x] signifying the integral part of positive number x. When every phase in the phase factors is given by a random number generated in a closed interval [0, 2π] and when n ≥ 10, the probability of appearance of N is roughly 1/2N when N = 1 to 7, and does not exceed 0.01 whenN ≥ 8.