Journal article

Publication year: 2012

Pages: 1494-1498

Journal: Chinese Science Bulletin

Volume number: 57

Issue number: 13

ISSN: 1001-6538

Open access status: Bronze

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5051-0

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing / Springer Verlag (Germany) / SpringerOpen

Abstract: 
We show that the phase velocity in a stationary state of a de Broglie wave can be directly obtained from the probability distribution, i.e. the quantum trajectories, without detailed knowledge of the phase term itself. In other words, the amplitude of a de Broglie wave function describes not only the probability distribution but also the phase velocity distribution. Using this relationship, we comment on two calculations of the Goos-Hanchen shift in de Broglie waves.

Harvard Citation style: Wang PingXiao, Wang JiaXiang, Huo YuKun, Scheid, W. and Hora, H. (2012) Relating the probability distribution of a de Broglie wave to its phase velocity, Chinese Science Bulletin, 57(13), pp. 1494-1498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5051-0

APA Citation style: Wang PingXiao, Wang JiaXiang, Huo YuKun, Scheid, W., & Hora, H. (2012). Relating the probability distribution of a de Broglie wave to its phase velocity. Chinese Science Bulletin. 57(13), 1494-1498. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-012-5051-0