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Pendulum Beams: Light Beams Simulating the Quantum Pendulum

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Abstract

We study non-diffracting solutions of the 2-dimensional Helmholtz equation in elliptical coordinates to simulate the quantum nonlinear pendulum. Stationary and wavepacket modes are in quantitative agreement with the quantum probabilities of swinging and rotating solutions.

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