The Particle in the box: Intermode traces in the propagator
arXiv:quant-ph/9804015
Abstract
Characteristic structures such as canals and ridges --intermode traces-- emerge in the spacetime representation of the probability distribution of a particle in a one-dimensional box. We show that the corresponding propagator already contains these structures. We relate their visibility to the factorization property of the initial wave packet.
10 pages, 2 figures. It will appear in the Proc. of the PRL Golden Jubilee Conference on Nonlinear Dynamics and Computational Physics (Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi)