Towards a quantum time mirror for non-relativistic wave packets

Reck, Phillipp, Gorini, Cosimo, Goussev, Arseni, Krueckl, Viktor, Fink, Mathias and Richter, Klaus (2018) Towards a quantum time mirror for non-relativistic wave packets. New Journal of Physics, 20 (3). 033013. ISSN 1367-2630

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Abstract

We propose a method – a quantum time mirror (QTM) – for simulating a partial time-reversal of the free-space motion of a nonrelativistic quantum wave packet. The method is based on a short-time spatially-homogeneous perturbation to the wave packet dynamics, achieved by adding a nonlinear time-dependent term to the underlying Schroedinger equation. Numerical calculations, supporting our analytical considerations, demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed QTM for generating a time-reversed echo image of initially localized matter-wave packets in one and two spatial dimensions. We also discuss possible experimental realizations of the proposed QTM.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: F300 Physics
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering
Depositing User: Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited: 16 Feb 2018 11:19
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 13:05
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/33402

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