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Hamilton's action principle is formulated and extended in conformity with the gauge transformations underlying Weyl's geometry. The extended principle characterizes infinitely many equally likely trajectories with a particle traveling along…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 S. R. Vatsya

Weyl semimetals are three-dimensional, topologically protected, gapless phases which show exotic phenomena such as Fermi arc surface states or negative magnetoresistance. It is an open question whether interparticle interactions can turn…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-24 Bernhard Irsigler , Tobias Grass , Jun-Hui Zheng , Mathieu Barbier , Walter Hofstetter

Matter-wave interferometry provides a remarkably sensitive tool for probing minute forces and, potentially, the foundations of quantum physics by making use of interference between spatially separated matter waves. Furthering this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Julen S. Pedernales , Gavin W. Morley , Martin B. Plenio

Weyl semimetals are recently discovered materials supporting emergent relativistic fermions in the vicinity of band-crossing points known as Weyl nodes. The positions of the nodes and the low-energy spectrum depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Westström , Teemu Ojanen

The loss of contrast in double-slit electron-diffraction due to dephasing and decoherence processes is studied. It is shown that the spatial correlation function of diffraction patterns can be used to distinguish between dephasing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Zilin Chen , Peter J. Beierle , Herman Batelaan

We report on the theoretical investigation of Wigner distribution function (WDF) reconstruction of the motional quantum state of large molecules in de Broglie interference. De Broglie interference of fullerenes and as the like already…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 S. K. Lee , M. S. Kim , C. Szewc , H. Ulbricht

We present a feasible protocol to mimic topological Weyl semimetal phase in a small one-dimensional circuit-QED lattice. By modulating the photon hopping rates and on-site photon frequencies in parametric spaces, we demonstrate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-20 Feng Mei , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Dan-Wei Zhang , Lin Tian , Chaohong Lee , Shi-Liang Zhu

The Talbot effect describes the emergence of periodic patterns in perturbed propagating wave fields. The effect is well studied for perturbations from structurally coherent optics such as diffraction gratings. The emergence of freeform and…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Robin Krüger , Jeevan Rois , Martin Bech , Matias Kagias

We demonstrate a near-field Talbot-Lau interferometer for C-70 fullerene molecules. Such interferometers are particularly suitable for larger masses. Using three free-standing gold gratings of one micrometer period and a transversally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 B. Brezger , L. Hackermüller , S. Uttenthaler , J. Petschinka , M. Arndt , A. Zeilinger

We review the Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. We discuss the concept of Narcowich-Wigner spectrum and use it to state necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase space function to be a Wigner distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

Weyl fermions scattering from a random Coulomb potential are predicted to exhibit resistivity versus temperature $\rho \space \alpha \space T^{-4}$ in a single particle model. Here we show that, in closed environment-grown polycrystalline…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-14 P. G. LaBarre , L. Dong , J. Trinh , T. Siegrist , A. P. Ramirez

Atom density profile arising in the atomic beam after passing through the one or two microfabricated structures (MS) is considered. Two limiting cases the beam with large and small angular divergence are considered. An equivalence of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Dubetsky , P. R. Berman

Due to studies in nonequilibrium (periodically-driven) topological matter, it is now understood that some topological invariants used to classify equilibrium states of matter do not suffice to describe their nonequilibrium counterparts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Muhammad Umer , Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

We give a general expression for the Weyl tensor two-point function in a general Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. We work in reduced phase space for the perturbations, i.e., quantize only the dynamical degrees of freedom…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-09 Markus B. Fröb

The distribution of eigenvalues of the wave equation in a bounded domain is known as Weyl's problem. We describe several computational projects related to the cumulative state number, defined as the number of states having wavenumber up to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-15 Isaac Bowser , Ken Kiers , Erica Mitchell , Joshua Kiers

The classical dynamics of collisionless cold dark matter, commonly described by fluid variables or a phase-space distribution, can be captured in a single semiclassical wavefunction. We illustrate how classical multi-streaming creates wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Alex Gough , Cora Uhlemann

Following the realization of Weyl semimetals in quantum electronic materials, classical wave analogues of Weyl materials have also been theorized and experimentally demonstrated in photonics and acoustics. Weyl points in elastic systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-18 Sai Sanjit Ganti , Ting-Wei Liu , Fabio Semperlotti

The Weyl-Wigner-Moyal formalism for quantum particle with discrete internal degrees of freedom is developed. A one to one correspondence between operators in the Hilbert space $L^{2}(\mathbb{R}^{3})\otimes{\mathcal{H}}^{(s+1)}$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Maciej Przanowski , Jaromir Tosiek , Francisco J. Turrubiates

This work concerns the asymptotic analysis of high-frequency wave propagation in randomly layered media with fast variations and long-range correlations. The analysis takes place in the 3D physical space and weak-coupling regime. The role…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Christophe Gomez

A new 8-dim conformal gauging solves the auxiliary field problem and eliminates unphysical size change from Weyl's electromagnetic theory. We derive the Maurer-Cartan structure equations and find the zero curvature solutions for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 James T. Wheeler