article · Physical Review Letters · 1997

Quantized Phase Difference

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Abstract

A quantum description for the phase difference between two harmonic oscillators is proposed. Being represented by a Hermitian operator, phase difference displays two striking quantum features. First, its eigenvalues form a new type of quantized value which is countable and dense in a $2\ensuremath{\pi}$ window. Second, because quantized phase difference cannot be defined as a difference of phases, it obeys a quantum addition rule which may not be commutative.

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APA 7

Yu, S. (1997). Quantized Phase Difference. Physical Review Letters, 79(5), 780–783. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.780

MLA 9

Yu, Sixia. “Quantized Phase Difference.” Physical Review Letters, vol. 79, no. 5, 1997, pp. 780–83, https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.780.

Chicago

Yu, Sixia. 1997. “Quantized Phase Difference.” Physical Review Letters 79 (5): 780–83. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.780.

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Yu, S. (1997) ‘Quantized Phase Difference’, Physical Review Letters, 79(5), pp. 780–783. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.780.

BibTeX

@article{yu1997quantized,
  title = {{Quantized Phase Difference}},
  author = {Yu, Sixia},
  journal = {Physical Review Letters},
  volume = {79},
  number = {5},
  pages = {780--783},
  year = {1997},
  doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.79.780}
}

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