¿CONFINA EL ESPACIO LIBRE A LAS ONDAS Y LAS PARTÍCULAS?
CAN FREE SPACE CONFINE WAVES AND PARTICLES?
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https://doi.org/10.15446/rev.fac.cienc.v12n1.102032Keywords:
interferencia, difracción, confinamiento, potencial geométrico, entrelazamiento espacial (es)Interference, Diffraction, Confinement, Geometric Potential, Spatial Entanglement (en)
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En física no-relativística, el espacio libre es considerado desde una perspectiva Newtoniana, es decir, como un escenario uniforme e isotrópico que no interviene en el comportamiento de los entes físicos. En este contexto, la interferencia y la difracción son descritas por la superposición de funciones de onda, lo cual aporta una explicación fenomenológica de esos comportamientos para las ondas, pero sólo provee una estrategia matemática de predicción para las partículas. Se muestra a continuación que la elaboración de una explicación fenomenológica de estos comportamientos, basada en un único principio, conduce a considerar el espacio libre como un ente físico que confina la energía de las ondas y las partículas en pozos Lorentzianos espacialmente estructurados por un potencial geométrico, el cual es activado por una condición de no-localidad preparada sobre la máscara de interferencia. Si esta condición es suficientemente fuerte, los pozos de confinamiento estarán espacialmente entrelazados. También se muestra que difracción e interferencia son términos que denotan modulaciones de confinamiento en diferentes regiones de la banda de frecuencias espaciales. Este desarrollo es puramente teórico, respaldado por modelamiento numérico y reproduce de manera precisa los resultados de experimentos reportados por otros autores.
In non-relativistic physics, free space is considered from a Newtonian perspective, that is, as a uniform and isotropic scenario that cannot affect the behavior of physical entities propagating in it. In this context, interference and diffraction are described by the superposition of wave functions that provides a phenomenological explanation in case of waves, but only gives a mathematical prediction strategy for particles. In this paper, it is shown that the development of a phenomenological explanation of both behaviors, based on a unique and the same principle, leads to consider free space as a physical entity that confines the wave energy and the particles in Lorentzian wells, spatially structured by a geometric potential which is activated by a prepared non-locality condition at the interference mask. If this condition is strong enough, the wells become spatially entangled. It is also shown that diffraction and interference are terms that denote confinement modulations in different regions of the spatial frequency band. This development is purely theoretical, supported by numerical modeling and accurately reproduces the results of well-known experiments.
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