arXiv · 1410.1010
Posmon spectrosopy of quantum state on a circle
Abstract
Developing the analysis of the distribution of the particle's position-momentum dot product, the so-called \textit{posmom} $\mathbf{x}% \cdot \mathbf{p}$\textbf{,} to quantum states on a circular circle on two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates, we give its posmometry (introduced recently by Y. A. Bernard and P. M. W. Gill, Posmom: The Unobserved Observable, J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1\textbf{(}2010\textbf{)}1254) for eigenstates of the free motion on the circle, i.e., $z$-axis component of the angular momentum. The posmom has two parity symmetries, specifically, invariant under two operations $m_{x}$ and $m_{y}$ representing mirror symmetry about $x$ and $y$ axis respectively. The complete eigenfunction set of the posmom is then four-valued and consists of four basic parts each of them is defined within a distinct quadrant of the circle. The results are not only potentially experimentally testable, but also reflect a fact that the embedding of the circle $S^{1}$ in two-dimensional flat space $R^{2}$ is physically reasonable.
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Q. H. Liu. 2014-10-04. Posmon spectrosopy of quantum state on a circle. https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1010
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