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Wave propagation is a common occurrence in all of physics. A linear approximation provides a simpler way to describe various fields related to observable phenomena in laboratory physics as well as astronomy and cosmology, allowing us to…

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We review recent progress in attaining a quantitative understanding of the scarring phenomenon, the non-random behavior of quantum wavefunctions near unstable periodic orbits of a classically chaotic system. The wavepacket dynamics…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

Remarkable efforts in the study of the semi-classical regime of kinematical loop quantum gravity are currently underway. In this note, we construct a ``quasi-coherent'' weave state using Gaussian factors. In a similar fashion to some other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Corichi , J. M. Reyes

Semiclassical approximation based on extracting a c-number classical component from quantum field is widely used in the quantum field theory. Semiclassical states are considered then as Gaussian wave packets in the functional Schrodinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 V. P. Maslov , O. Yu. Shvedov

We obtain a general solution for the probability density function of wave intensities in non-stationary Wave Turbulence. The solution is expressed in terms of the wave action spectrum evolving according the the wave-kinetic equation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Yeontaek Choi , Young-Sam Kwon , Sanggyu Jo , Sergey Nazarenko

We have studied the quantum dissipative problem of a Gaussian wave packet under the influence of a harmonic potential. A phenomenological approach to dissipation is adopted in the light of the well-known model in which the environment is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 A. Cidrim , F. E. A. dos Santos , A. O. Caldeira

Using the quantum trajectories approach we study the quantum dynamics of a dissipative chaotic system described by the Zaslavsky map. For strong dissipation the quantum wave function in the phase space collapses onto a compact packet which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gabriel G. Carlo , Giuliano Benenti , Dima L. Shepelyansky

We study the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in randomly heterogeneous bianisotropic media with dissipative properties. For that purpose we consider randomly fluctuating optical responses of such media with correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

We show that generalized coherent states follow Schr\"{o}dinger dynamics in time-dependent potentials. The normalized wave-packets follow a classical evolution without spreading; in turn, the Schr\"{o}dinger potential depends on the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. De Martino , S. De Siena , F. Illuminati

The velocity of a passive particle in a one-dimensional wave field is shown to converge in law to a Wiener process, in the limit of a dense wave spectrum with independent complex amplitudes, where the random phases distribution is invariant…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Yves Elskens

The analysis of wave-packet dynamics may be greatly simplified when viewed in phase-space. While harmonic oscillators are often used as a convenient platform to study wave-packets, arbitrary state preparation in these systems is more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yoni Shalibo , Roy Resh , Ofer Fogel , David Shwa , Radoslaw Bialczak , John M. Martinis , Nadav Katz

We consider the process of diffusion scattering of a wave function given on the phase space. In this process the heat diffusion is considered only along momenta. We write down the modified Kramers equation describing this situation. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 E. M. Beniaminov

Nonlinear electromagnetic waves with superluminal phase velocity can propagate in the winds around isolated pulsars, and around some pulsars in binary systems. Using a short-wavelength approximation, we find and analyze an integrable system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Iwona Mochol , John G. Kirk

Time dependence for barrier penetration is considered in the phase space. An asymptotic phase-space propagator for nonrelativistic scattering on a one - dimensional barrier is constructed. The propagator has a form universal for various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. S. Marinov , Bilha Segev

Representations of quantum state vectors by complex phase space amplitudes, complementing the description of the density operator by the Wigner function, have been defined by applying the Weyl-Wigner transform to dyadic operators, linear in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. J. Bracken , P. Watson

A Fokker-Planck equation for the Wigner function evolution in a noisy Kerr medium ($\chi^{(3)}$ non-linearity) is presented. We numerically solved this equation taking a coherent state as an initial condition. The dissipation effects are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-04 Magdalena Stobińska , G. J. Milburn , Krzysztof Wódkiewicz

We introduce a procedure to generate scattering states which display trajectory-like wave function patterns in wave transport through complex scatterers. These deterministic scattering states feature the dual property of being eigenstates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-09 Stefan Rotter , Philipp Ambichl , Florian Libisch

We construct a semiclassical theory for propagation of an optical wavepacket in non-conducting media with periodic structures of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability, i.e., non-conducting photonic crystals. We employ a…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

We construct a frame of complex Gaussians for the space of $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$ functions. When propagated along bicharacteristics for the wave equation, the frame can be used to build a parametrix with suitable error terms. When the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Alden Waters

We consider semiclassically scaled, weakly nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with external confining potentials and additional angular-momentum rotation term. This type of model arises in the Gross-Pitaevskii theory of trapped, rotating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Xiaoan Shen , Christof Sparber