Quantum caustics in the Gaussian slit experiment

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 253, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 259-265

  Horie, Kenichi ^a   Miyazaki, Hitoshi ^a   Tsutsui, Izumi ^a   Tanimura, Shogo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caustics; Semiclassical approximations

Indexed keywords

CAUSTICS; CLOSED FORM; GAUSSIANS; INITIAL MOMENTUM; QUANTUM EFFECTS; SEMI-CLASSICAL APPROXIMATION; TRANSITION AMPLITUDES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0041780060     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0375-9601(99)00079-1     Document Type: Article

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