Title
Simulating quantum mechanics with light: The quantum pendulum via mathieu beams
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Colgate University
Publisher(s)
Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
Abstract
We simulate the nonlinear quantum pendulum using non-diffracting solutions of the 2-dimensional Helmholtz equation in elliptical coordinates. Stationary and wavepacket Mathieu spatial modes are in quantitative agreement with the quantum probabilities.
Volume
Part F144-FiO 2019
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85084450858
Resource of which it is part
Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
ISBN of the container
9781557528209
Conference
Frontiers in Optics, FiO_2019 Washington 15 September 2019 through 19 September 2019
Sponsor(s)
We thank M.R. Dennis and S. Chávez-Cerda for useful discussions. This work was funded by the grant from the National Science Foundation PHY-1506321.
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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