Title
Simulating quantum wavepackets with non-diffracting pendulum beams
Date Issued
14 September 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Colgate University
Publisher(s)
Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Abstract
Exploiting similarities between the Schrödinger and Helmholtz equations we prepare optical beams that simulate quantum solutions of the simple mechanical pendulum. We did laboratory investigations of optical patterns that correlated with the probabilities in the quantum pendulum. Coherent superpositions of modes simulated quantum wavepackets in the linear-harmonic-oscillator and nonlinear-Mathieu regimes.
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85106018666
Source
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
ISSN of the container
21622701
ISBN of the container
978-194358080-4
Conference
2020 Frontiers in Optics Conference, FiO 2020
Sponsor(s)
where each mode in the superposition has a longitudinal propagation vector that is prepared to be proportional to the scaled energy. This way the mode evolves in space the same way it would evolve in time, consituting a (2+1) dimensional spatial mode. At the conference we will be presenting our most recent results on this problem. We have also studied the high-q case (q = 200 − 300), where we can simulate harmonic oscillator states. This work was funded by National Science Foundation grant PHY-1506321.
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