What is a Wave Packet in Quantum Mechanics?

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33:40 there is nuance to saying the wave packet spreads b/c of momentum uncertainty. In wave packets of light, the HUP applies but the wave packet does not spread, as all modes propagate at c = p/E = dp/dE. which is dispersionless. For a massive particles, there is dispersion because at zero momentum, there is finite energy: mc^2, or minimum cut-off frequency below which no modes exist.

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Sir, Best video. It is a must for any one want to understand what is a wave pocket. They way you approached the need of wave pocket to describe Quantum behaviour. Concluded the video by showing how this wave pocket idea addresses the each bit of QM's mathematical necessity is simply awesome. I couldn't see such a complete explanation so far. You rock. ❤

[@DrDeuteron]

12:08 is not a simple plane wave solution, it's two plane wave solutions with p and -p added together. For new students to understand it, they really need to think of it as a complex wave, with the derivative of the complex part, or the phase = kx - wt, doing the heavy lifting. The wave packet itself doesn't have nodes in it, it just has a corkscrew real/imaging structure. Ofc your math is totally correct, but I have seen a lot of confusion develop because they only see pictures of Re(psi), and forget about Im(psi). --ok 32:30 well done.

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where did 1/sqrt(2pi) come from in the integral psi(x,t)? 27:43

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When we see/observe and when we apply measurement method/technique to a quantum system... there is a difference between these two verbs. When we measure it we transform the quantum state |psi> into something that can be approximated with a dirac delta function due to uncertainty principle. What do you mean "when we see a particle it behaves like a particle"?

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wave packet formation 15:00

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30:00 wave packet formula

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What about Bohmian mechanics, which is the only interpretation of QM that makes some logical sense?

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Uf=Qe/Re=5,686.10^-5 (V), este potentialul de semiunda si este de amplitudine constanta. Este o constanta componenta a lui h. Uf=Qe/Re=5,686.10^-5 (V), is the half-wave potential and is of constant amplitude. It is a constant component of h.

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Would it be correct to regard the energy quantum as Planck used it in his radiation law (h x f) as a wave packet?

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Don't all waves do that? You have two rotating axes and they just make a shape like that. It's not even that shape though. It's elongated with respect to time. You could probably find planets with cycles that look like that if you put it in the right perspective.

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Can you plz explain A simple treatment of a 2 dimensional wave packet

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Is there a physical width to the wave packet? What is the order of magnitude. Or is it infinitesimally small, the width?

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The width is associated with the uncertainty in measurement of the particle's position

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[@amjadali-lx4lh]

suppose i solve one dimension box problm using Schrodinger eq. then i will obtain one solution which is also member of a wavepacket ' then how i will form a wavepacket from this single solution. or for 1D box how i can obtain a wavepacket for given conditions for an electron.

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[@keshavjindal3294]

understood that wavepacket is an attempt to somehow combine the particle and it's associated matter wave nature into a single 'thing', it was exaplained wonderfully, but what I am not able to understand is that now how can a wavepacket perform collision with another wavepacket, or how can a wavepacket go under interference as it does not consist of wavefronts, the nature of it being a mathematical concept and our inablility to know the real physical truth because of our incapable measuring devices, is posing this problem in my understanding, if someone know the solution to my doubt or can guide me for this doubt, a reply will be really appreciated..

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I'll try: In the double slit experiment i.e. when both slits are open, the electrons (or other particles) hitting the screen form an interference pattern, and that would not be possible if the electrons behaved like little balls. Even if we fire only one electron at a time, so that only one electron at a time is between the double slits and the screens, interference occurs. So we can see that the particles must have wavelike behaviour. A wave was never observed (or measured), but we see the interference pattern, so that we must assume the particles somehow behave like waves. But when we measure, we always find only particles, that's "little balls" with a definite location (where they hit the screen i.e.). But how can the interference patterns form even when only one electron at a time goes through the double slits? The only possible "explanation" ist that the particle goes throught both slits at once and than interferes with itself. As long as it's not measured, it has no definite position, but is in all locations (allowed by the wave packet) at once; it is in superposition. That sounds or is weird, but so is QM! So the wave packet represents all possible or probable positions of a particle (with higher probabilities at the peaks), that's where there's most likelihood to find the electron when measured. Only when we measure its position (when it hits the screen i.e.), the superposition of all probable positions "collapeses" into a definite position. It's not "our incapable measuring devices", but the particles wavelike behaviour (like going through two slits at once or interferring with itself) that doesn't allow us to assign the particle a definite position. Only when measured it randomly assumes a definite position out of the probable ones. So I think we can say: we never measure a wave (and the wavefunction contains imaginary parts), so it's a mathematical tool, but it has its "representation" in reality, the interference patterns i.e. Hope this helps?

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@Gwunderi25 hmmm, I get it more, I have one question in mind that we have prepared a mathematical explanation that is well describing the behavior of electron, but, like in collision of 2 tennis balls I can see how they interact with each other and follow their resultant trajectory and hit a wall or something, I want to find out how the electrons actually are interacting with each other so that they give the pattern they give, like in water waves I can see waves colliding and resulting onto bigger waves or collapsing each other, the same way, I want to know what actually the electron is doing in that black box, we have made a explanation and that's fantastic, but my brain further says that "okay, but what are they 'actually ' doing with each other " , maybe because since my childhood, I have been able to see why things are the way they are for example the collision of balls or water waves..I desire to know this too..

[@Gwunderi25]

@@keshavjindal3294 "How the electrons actually are interacting with each other so that they give the pattern they give …" The interference pattern appears even if only one electron at a time is fired through the double slits. So we can't say that the electrons interact with each other to form the pattern. A single electron hits the screen at a random place, but with higher probability at the wave's peaks, and almost zero probability when the wave's amplitude is zero. The interference pattern is given after a great number of electrons hit the screen, most electrons at the places where the wave has its peaks and almost no electrons at amplitude zero. So it's the probabilty distribution given by the wave's amplitudes that "creates"*** the interference pattern, and not the electrons interacting with each other. Sounds weird, I know, not our everyday experience … ***Edit: Better: We SEE an interference pattern on the screen, and find that it corresponds to the interference pattern of a wave going through both slits and than interfering; so we can create a wave function that shows where the electrons are more or less likely to hit the screen.

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No quiet sure why the integral is being used here if the wave packet is being discribed by a summation of waves w/ discrete k values (quantum number). Don't we want to use Fourier series in this case, not Fourier transform?

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What is grantee that all infinite waves will do constructive interference at that point where particle is present bcz in real case it depends on path difference. now for these waves what is condition for this

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It is a general technique. The final nature of the multiplicative modulating function that arises out of it will determine the nature of the wave packet

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33:00 to 33:40 why wave packet

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is solution of Schrodinger eq. represent a wave packet r not?

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The solution of SE is one plane wave solution. The wave packet is the linear superposition of many such plane waves.

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How we can obtain all plane wave solutions by solving Schrodinger eq .present in a wavepacket. For this what procedure we will follow.

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Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. The twist in the torus can either be Right-Hand or Left-Hand. Some twisted donuts can be larger than others, which can produce three different types of neutrinos. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else. Therefore, a "particle" is actually a structure which stores spatial curvature. Can an electron-positron pair (which are made up of opposite directions of twist) annihilate each other by unwinding into each other producing Gamma Ray photons? Does an electron travel through space like a threaded nut traveling down a threaded rod, with each twist cycle proportional to Planck’s Constant? Does it wind up on one end, while unwinding on the other end? Is this related to the Higgs field? Does this help explain the strange ½ spin of many subatomic particles? Does the 720 degree rotation of a 1/2 spin particle require at least one extra dimension? Alpha decay occurs when the two protons and two neutrons (which are bound together by entangled tubes), become un-entangled from the rest of the nucleons . Beta decay occurs when the tube of a down quark/gluon in a neutron becomes overtwisted and breaks producing a twisted torus (neutrino) and an up quark, and the ejected electron. The phenomenon of Supercoiling involving twist and writhe cycles may reveal how overtwisted quarks can produce these new particles. The conversion of twists into writhes, and vice-versa, is an interesting process. Gamma photons are produced when a tube unwinds producing electromagnetic waves. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Within this model a black hole could represent a quantum of gravity, because it is one cycle of spatial gravitational curvature. Therefore, instead of a graviton being a subatomic particle it could be considered to be a black hole. The overall gravitational attraction would be caused by a very tiny curvature imbalance within atoms. We know there is an unequal distribution of electrical charge within each atom because the positive charge is concentrated within the nucleus, even though the overall electrical charge of the atom is balanced by equal positive and negative charge. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> In this model Alpha equals the compactification ratio within the twistor cone, which is approximately 1/137. 1= Hypertubule diameter at 4D interface 137= Cone’s larger end diameter at 3D interface where the photons are absorbed or emitted. The 4D twisted Hypertubule gets longer or shorter as twisting or untwisting occurs. (720 degrees per twist cycle.) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> How many neutrinos are left over from the Big Bang? They have a small mass, but they could be very large in number. Could this help explain Dark Matter? >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Why did Paul Dirac use the twist in a belt to help explain particle spin? Is Dirac’s belt trick related to this model? Is the “Quantum” unit based on twist cycles? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I started out imagining a subatomic Einstein-Rosen Bridge whose internal surface is twisted with either a Right-Hand twist, or a Left-Hand twist. The model grew out of that simple idea. I was also trying to imagine a way to stuff the curvature of a 3 D sine wave into subatomic particles. .

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Where does the notion of "particle as localized object" comes from? If my Latin is correct, "particle" only means "little part" and says nothing about its shape, form or nature, just that it is constituent of something bigger. What you say may be best described as "corpuscles" (little bodies), which is a term that was used in the 19th centuries debates about the nature of light, sometimes described as "corpuscular". In any case where do we observe the "particle" (corpuscle) nature of light or anything else? Not in the photoelectric effect, which only shows that electrons absorb discrete fractions of the light wave (frequency and not amplitude) but not that light is actually made of little objects at all. I am under the impression that Physics may have fallen into Newtonian legacy pitfalls for no good reason at all. Also light does not have mass.

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I agree that all we observe is quantized transfers between the EM field and (in most cases) the electrons in atoms. We don’t see light “particles” anywhere.

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How do we reconcile the fact that particles can execute an arbitrary trajectory whereas waves can travel only along a straight line? The interchangeable nature of wave and particle is lost here!

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This is not how it works. Please read Mott's 1929 paper, everybody. The quantum-classical transition is NOT an ensemble effect. It is repeated weak measurement on THE SAME system. One can look at ensembles until the cows come home (even with the density matrix) and classical mechanics won't come out. It's not in there. What causes classical mechanics to emerge is that the energy loss towards infinity constantly localizes a quantum system with a very large angular momentum. So why do we need repeated observation? Because the transition is caused by CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES. The system has been localized after the first measurement. From there it can only evolve due to its current momentum, i.e. it can't drift very far until we do the second, third, etc. measurements. One simply can not get conditional probabilities out of an ensemble in which we only perform one measurement per system. Conditional probabilities require consecutive measurements. The wave function alone is therefor not enough. It represents a single measurement process only.

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@8:30 Says wave cannot be measured. He should go back to school? Seems awfully confused since we are always defining wave lengths of different photons. A "wave packet" he so loves is just a SINGLE Comlete wave. that is all.

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