Symmetries and singular behaviors with Bohmian trajectories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.08096v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:58:56 GMT
• Title: Symmetries and singular behaviors with Bohmian trajectories
• Authors: A. S. Sanz,
• Abstract summary: This work focuses on how Bohmian mechanics proves to be a rather convenient theoretical framework to analyze phase-based phenomena. Two interesting phenomena that take place in free space are considered, namely, the self-acceleration and shape-invariance of Airy beams, and spontaneous self-focusing.
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• Abstract: Quantum mechanics is able to produce challenging behaviors even in the simplest situations. This is possible because of the important dynamical role that phase plays in the evolution of quantum systems, very similar, nonetheless, to effects observable in analogous optical systems. The present work focuses on how Bohmian mechanics proves to be a rather convenient theoretical framework to analyze phase-based phenomena, since the phase constitutes the central element in this hydrodynamical formulation of quantum mechanics. More specifically, it allows us to understand how spatial phase variations give rise to velocity fields that eventually rule the dynamical behavior of quantum systems, and that, when integrated in time locally (i.e., taking into account specific positions), they provide us with a neat local (point by point) description of the system evolution in the configuration space. Indeed, it will also be seen that this idea transcends the quantum realm and can be profitably used to describe the behavior of optical analogs with rather singular behaviors. With this purpose, two interesting phenomena that take place in free space are considered, namely, the self-acceleration and shape-invariance of Airy beams, and spontaneous self-focusing.

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