Minimal length effect on the broadening of free wave packets and its physical implications

Villalpando, Carlos; Modak, Sujoy K.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024054

Title: Minimal length effect on the broadening of free wave packets and its physical implications

Journal Article · Fri Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024054· OSTI ID:1523427

Villalpando, Carlos ^[1];

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Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States); Univ. de Colima (Mexico)
Univ. de Colima (Mexico)

We study the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) modified time evolution for the width of wave packets for a scalar potential. The free particle case is solved exactly where the wave-packet broadening is modified by a coupling between the GUP parameter and higher-order moments in the probability distribution in momentum space. We consider two popular forms of deformations widely used in the literature—one of which modifies the commutator with a quadratic term in momentum, while the other modifies it with terms both linear and quadratic in momentum. Unlike the standard case, satisfying Heisenberg uncertainty, here the GUP modified broadening rates, for both deformations, not only depend on the initial size (in both position and momentum space) of the wave packet but also on the initial probability distribution and momentum of the particle. The new rates of wave-packet broadening, for both situations, are modified by a handful of new terms—such as the skewness and kurtosis coefficients, as well as the (constant) momentum of the particle. Comparisons with the standard Heisenberg uncertainty principle–based results show potentially measurable differences in the rates of free wave-packet broadening for physical systems such as the C60 and C176 molecules, and more so for large organic molecular wave packets. In doing so, we open a path to scan the GUP parameter space by several orders of magnitude inside the best existing upper bounds for both forms of GUP.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1523427

Report Number(s):: arXiv:1812.06112; FERMILAB-PUB-18-704; PRVDAQ; 1709339

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 100, Issue 2; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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