Unbounded quantum backflow in two dimensions
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.06539v1
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:18:30 GMT
- Title: Unbounded quantum backflow in two dimensions
- Authors: Maximilien Barbier, Arseni Goussev, and Shashi C. L. Srivastava
- Abstract summary: Quantum backflow refers to the counterintuitive fact that the probability can flow in the direction opposite to the momentum of a quantum particle.
We show that quantum backflow can be unbounded, which makes this system a promising physical platform regarding the yet-to-be-performed experimental observation of this fundamental quantum phenomenon.
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- Abstract: Quantum backflow refers to the counterintuitive fact that the probability can
flow in the direction opposite to the momentum of a quantum particle. This
phenomenon has been seen to be small and fragile for one-dimensional systems,
in which the maximal amount of backflow has been found to be bounded. Quantum
backflow exhibits dramatically different features in two-dimensional systems
that, contrary to the one-dimensional case, allow for degenerate energy
eigenstates. Here we investigate the case of a charged particle that is
confined to move on a finite disk punctured at the center and that is pierced
through the center, and normally to the disk, by a magnetic flux line. We
demonstrate that quantum backflow can be unbounded (in a certain sense), which
makes this system a promising physical platform regarding the
yet-to-be-performed experimental observation of this fundamental quantum
phenomenon.
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