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On Solutions to the Nonlinear Phase Modification of the Schroedinger Equation

Waldemar Puszkarz

abstract: We present some physically interesting, in general non-stationary, one-dimensional solutions to the nonlinear phase modification of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation proposed recently. The solutions include a coherent state, a phase-modified Gaussian wave packet in the potential of harmonic oscillator whose strength varies in time, a free Gaussian soliton, and a similar soliton in the potential of harmonic oscillator comoving with the soliton. The last of these solutions implies that there exist an energy level in the spectrum of harmonic oscillator which is not predicted by the linear theory. The free solitonic solution can be considered a model for a particle aspect of the wave-particle duality embodied in the quantum theory. The physical size of this particle is naturally rendered equal to its Compton wavelength in the subrelativistic framework in which the self-energy of the soliton is assumed to be equal to its rest-mass energy. The solitonic solutions exist only for the negative coupling constant for which the Gaussian wave packets must be larger than some critical finite size if their energy is to be bounded, i.e., they cannot be point-like objects.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/9903010
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
New organization of the paper, modified, but no changes in the results, new references added, Latex, 13 pages
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/9903010
created:
1999-03-03
updated:
1999-05-16

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