Quantum interference by non-interacting classical trajectories evolving on a quasi-classical potential

✍ Scribed by Craig Brooksby; Oleg V Prezhdo

• Book ID: 104108554
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 245 KB
• Volume: 378
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/s0009-2614(03)01342-3

✦ Synopsis

The quantum interference pattern in the double-slit experiment is qualitatively reproduced by independent classical trajectories evolving on an effective potential obtained in the lowest order quantized Hamilton dynamics approach. The quantum effects appear due to a simple modification of the original classical potential that is sufficient to obtain a diffraction maximum in the middle between the two slits and an auxiliary diffraction structure on the sides of the central maximum.