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arxiv: quant-ph/9804002 · v1 · submitted 1998-04-01 · 🪐 quant-ph

Nonclassical evolution of a free particle

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keywords energykineticnegativefreenonclassicalparticlewignerbecome
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A conditional kinetic energy is defined in terms of the Wigner distribution. It is shown that this kinetic energy may become negative for negative Wigner distributions. A free particle wave packet with negative kinetic energy will spread in a nonclassical manner.

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