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Definition

Applying Eq.(2.67) to Eq.(2.68) one finds that the typical wave packet is

$\displaystyle P^\varepsilon_{j\ell}(t)$ $\displaystyle =$ $\displaystyle \int^{(j+1)\varepsilon}_{j\varepsilon} \!\!\!\!\!\! d\omega
\unde...
...c{2\pi\ell}{\varepsilon}) j \varepsilon}
}
{i(t-\frac{2\pi\ell}{\varepsilon}) }$  
  $\displaystyle ~$ \begin{displaymath}\begin{array}{c}
\textrm{unitary}\\
\textrm{xformation}
\end...
...~
\begin{array}{c}
\textrm{wave}\\
\textrm{packet}
\end{array}\end{displaymath}  
  $\displaystyle =$ $\displaystyle \frac{2}{\sqrt{2\pi\varepsilon}}
\frac{\displaystyle
\sin \left[ ...
...isplaystyle
i(t-\frac{2\pi\ell}{\varepsilon})(j+\frac{1}{2})\varepsilon}
\} ~~.$ (269)

Notation: For the purpose of notational efficiency we shall suppress the superscript $ \varepsilon $ in the wavepacket name $ P^\varepsilon_{j\ell}(t)$ throughout the remainder of Section 2.4.2. Thus we use simply $ P_{j\ell }(t)$ instead. However, in the upcoming Sections 2.5 and 2.6 we shall always highlight $ \varepsilon $ by explicitly writing $ P^\varepsilon_{j\ell}(t)$ .



Ulrich Gerlach 2010-12-09