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Plancherel's Identity and Schrödinger Equation

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MATH-495: Mathematical quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful physical theories. This course presents the mathematical formalism (functional analysis and spectral theory) that underlies quantum mechanics. It is simultaneously an introduction to mathematical physics and ...

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This lecture covers Plancherel's identity for Schwartz functions and the solution of the free Schrödinger equation with initial data in Schwartz space. It discusses the existence and uniqueness of the solution, smoothness in time, conservation of L^2 norm, and the explicit solution formula with a complex Gaussian kernel. The interpretation includes wave packet spreading and the particle escaping to infinity.

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Wave packet

In physics, a wave packet (also known as a wave train or wave group) is a short burst of localized wave action that travels as a unit, outlined by an envelope. A wave packet can be analyzed into, or can be synthesized from, a potentially-infinite set of component sinusoidal waves of different wavenumbers, with phases and amplitudes such that they interfere constructively only over a small region of space, and destructively elsewhere.

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