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Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210404 (2004) [4 pages]

Evolution of Wave-Packet Spread under Sequential Scattering of Particles of Unequal Mass

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L. S. Schulman*
Physics Department, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York 13699-5820, USA

Received 11 December 2003; published 28 May 2004

Under assumptions on initial wave-packet spreads and particle interactions, different mass particles scattering off one another will have the product σi2mi converge to a common value, where σi is the spread and mi is the mass of the ith particle. When this relation is satisfied, kinematic entanglement vanishes.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.210404
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.210404
PACS:
03.65.Nk, 03.65.Ud, 03.75.Dg, 05.30.–d

*Electronic address: schulman@clarkson.edu