Wave packet scattering and time delay

Robertson, William Ian

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Wave packet scattering and time delay

Date

1971

Authors

Robertson, William Ian

Abstract

The scattering of a wave packet by a finite range potential may be described by a wave function in which the initial state is specified at time t = 0 , and the time dependence appears in functions M(r, k, t), first obtained by Moshinsky.