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Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle

We present a flip-flop dual-component model to treat quantum dynamics of relativistic particles with a rest mass and investigate the matter waves’ phase and amplitude modulations due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Their matter waves behave like a traveling Gaussian-shaped wave packet accompa...

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Autores principales: Tang, Jau, Tang, Qiang, Hu, Z. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36050452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19344-9
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description We present a flip-flop dual-component model to treat quantum dynamics of relativistic particles with a rest mass and investigate the matter waves’ phase and amplitude modulations due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Their matter waves behave like a traveling Gaussian-shaped wave packet accompanied by a guiding pilot wave, and the phase modulations result in mass oscillations. These effects are more prominent for light-weighted elementary particles, such as neutrinos and electrons. This mechanism is solely due to the uncertainty principle and has nothing to do with the flavor-mixing of neutrinos. Simulations using neutrinos and electrons are presented, which indicate an oscillation period on the order of ps. This study primarily focuses on the predicted mass oscillations induced by the uncertainty principle. A slit-type interference experiment using neutrinos and electrons from reactors is proposed to test the predicted behaviors.
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spelling pubmed-94370672022-09-03 Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle Tang, Jau Tang, Qiang Hu, Z. B. Sci Rep Article We present a flip-flop dual-component model to treat quantum dynamics of relativistic particles with a rest mass and investigate the matter waves’ phase and amplitude modulations due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Their matter waves behave like a traveling Gaussian-shaped wave packet accompanied by a guiding pilot wave, and the phase modulations result in mass oscillations. These effects are more prominent for light-weighted elementary particles, such as neutrinos and electrons. This mechanism is solely due to the uncertainty principle and has nothing to do with the flavor-mixing of neutrinos. Simulations using neutrinos and electrons are presented, which indicate an oscillation period on the order of ps. This study primarily focuses on the predicted mass oscillations induced by the uncertainty principle. A slit-type interference experiment using neutrinos and electrons from reactors is proposed to test the predicted behaviors. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9437067/ /pubmed/36050452 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19344-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
title Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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title_fullStr Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
title_full_unstemmed Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
title_short Mass oscillations and matter wave’s phase and amplitude modulations of relativistic quantum particles induced by Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9437067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36050452
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-19344-9
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