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Quantum Particle Subject to Impulsive Collisions |
CHEN Yongcong |
Department of Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026 |
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CHEN Yongcong 1993 Chin. Phys. Lett. 10 641-644 |
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Abstract The effects of strong impulsive collisions on the time evolution of a quantum particle are studied. A general formalism is proposed in which a given collision effectively randomizes the momentum of the particle while leaving the position of the particle unchanged. This is then applied to a damped harmonic oscillator. It is explicitly shown that a Gaussian wave packet approaches equilibrium at t →∞. Relations to macroscopic quantum coherence are discussed.
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Published: 01 November 1993
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