Varma, Ram K. (2007) Quantum manifestation of systems on the macro-scale — the concept of transition state and transition amplitude wave Pramana - Journal of Physics, 68 (6). pp. 901-911. ISSN 0304-4289
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Abstract
Quantum effects which have usually been associated with micro-scale phenomena can also arise on the macro-scale in situations other than the well-known macro-quantum phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity. Such situations have been shown here to arise in processes involving inelastic scattering with bound or partially bound systems (not bound in all degrees of freedom), and the macro-quantum behaviour is associated with the state of the total system in transition in the process of scattering. Such a state is designated as a 'transition-state'. It is pointed out that we have already observed such manifestations for a particular system, the charged particles in a magnetic field where interference effects involving macro-scale matter waves along the magnetic field have been reported [R K Varma et al, Phys. Rev. E65, 026503 (2002)].
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Keywords: | Transition Amplitude; Inelastic Scattering; Macro-scale Quantum Effects |
ID Code: | 58400 |
Deposited On: | 31 Aug 2011 06:18 |
Last Modified: | 18 May 2016 09:23 |
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