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The semiclassical long-time limit of free evolution of quantum wave packets on the torus is under consideration. Despite of simplicity of this system, there are still open questions concerning the detailed description of the evolution on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 A. S. Trushechkin

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method to prepare a nonspreading atomic wave packet. Our technique relies on a spatially modulated absorption constantly chiseling away from an initially broad de Broglie wave. The resulting…

Transition from quantum to semiclassical behaviour and loss of quantum coherence for inhomogeneous perturbations generated from a non-vacuum initial state in the early Universe is considered in the Heisenberg and the Schr\"odinger…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Julien Lesgourgues , David Polarski , Alexei A. Starobinsky

We assess the suitability of quantum and semiclassical initial value representations, exemplified by the coupled coherent states (CCS) method and the Herman Kluk (HK) propagator, respectively, for modeling the dynamics of an electronic wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 C. Zagoya , J. Wu , M. Ronto , D. V. Shalashilin , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

We experimentally demonstrate the steady-state generation of propagating Wigner-negative states from a continuously driven superconducting qubit. We reconstruct the Wigner function of the radiation emitted into propagating modes defined by…

Quantized systems whose underlying classical dynamics possess an elaborate mixture of regular and chaotic motion can exhibit rather subtle long-time quantum transport phenomena. In a short wavelength regime where semiclassical theories are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christoph-Marian Goletz , Frank Grossmann , Steven Tomsovic

We show that a strongly perturbed quantum system, being a semiclassical system characterized by the Wigner-Kirkwood expansion for the propagator, has the same expansion for the eigenvalues as for the WKB series. The perturbation series is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marco Frasca

The recently developed Wigner functional theory is used to formulate an evolution equation for arbitrary multi-photon states, propagating through a turbulent atmosphere under arbitrary conditions. The resulting evolution equation, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Filippus S. Roux

We have presented a theoretical investigation into the behavior of tetraquark states. These states are modeled as a non-relativistic four-body quantum system governed by harmonic interactions. Our goal is to capture the fundamental dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Sh. Janjan , G. R. Boroun

We present a detailed study of the dynamics of electronic wavepackets in Fibonacci semiconductor superlattices, both in flat band conditions and subject to homogeneous electric fields perpendicular to the layers. Coherent propagation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Enrique Diez , Francisco Dominguez-Adame , Enrique Macia , Angel Sanchez

We present a comprehensive study of semiclassical phase-space propagation in the Wigner representation, emphasizing numerical applications, in particular as an initial-value representation. Two semiclassical approximation schemes are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2010-07-01 Thomas Dittrich , Edgar A. Gomez , Leonardo A. Pachon

Undulator radiation from synchrotron light sources must be transported down a beamline from the source to the sample. A partially coherent photon beam may be represented in phase space using a Wigner function, and its transport may use some…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Boaz Nash , Nicholas Goldring , Jonathan Edelen , Stephen Webb , Rafael Celestre

The time evolution of the Wigner function for Gaussian states generated by Lindblad quantum dynamics is investigated in the semiclassical limit. A new type of phase-space dynamics is obtained for the centre of a Gaussian Wigner function,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 E M Graefe , B Longstaff , T Plastow , R Schubert

We propose a gate-based quantum algorithm for the prediction step of Bayesian state estimation based on the Fokker-Planck equation on a discretized position-velocity state space. The probability density is encoded in the amplitudes of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Felix Govaers

Localized quantum wave packets can be produced in a variety of physical systems and are the subject of much current research in atomic, molecular, chemical, and condensed-matter physics. They are particularly well suited for studying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky , James Porter

Generating non-Gaussian states and converting them into traveling wavepackets is crucial yet challenging for scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing. We present a hardware-efficient approach that simultaneously achieves both tasks by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Maryam Khanahmadi , Klaus Mølmer

The Schrodinger and Heisenberg evolution operators are represented in quantum phase space by their Weyl symbols. Their semiclassical approximations are constructed in the short and long time regimes. For both evolution problems, the WKB…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Osborn , M. F. Kondratieva

We show that the quantum wavefunction, interpreted as the probability density of finding a single non-localized quantum particle, which evolves according to classical laws of motion, is an intermediate description of a material quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman

We study the quantum evolution in dimension three of a system composed by a test particle interacting with an environment made of $N$ harmonic oscillators. At time zero the test particle is described by a spherical wave, i.e. a highly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Carla Recchia , Alessandro Teta

Wave packet broadening in usual quantum mechanics is a consequence of dispersion behavior of the medium which the wave propagates in it. In this paper, we consider the problem of wave packet broadening in the framework of Generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kourosh Nozari , S. H. Mehdipour