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A unified approach to Schrödinger evolution of superoscillations and supershifts
Yakir Aharonov1, Jussi Behrndt2, Fabrizio Colombo3
1Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866 USA.
Abstract:
Superoscillating functions and supershifts appear naturally in weak measurements in physics. Their evolution as initial conditions in the time-dependent Schrödinger equation is an important and challenging problem in quantum mechanics and mathematical analysis. The concept that encodes the persistence of superoscillations during the evolution is the (more general) supershift property of the solution. In this paper, we give a unified approach to determine the supershift property for the solution of the time-dependent one-dimensional Schrödinger equation. The main advantage and novelty of our results is that they only require suitable estimates and regularity assumptions on the Green's function, but not its explicit form. With this efficient general technique, we are able to treat various potentials.
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