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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 present a pedagogical discussion on the time evolution of a Gaussian neutrino wave packet in free space. A common treatment is to keep momentum terms up to the quadratic order in the expansion of the energy-momentum relation so that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-27 Cheng-Hsien Li , Yong-Zhong Qian

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of the wave packet traveling through a porous semiconductor channel, with the defects being simulated by a disordered scattering region produced by obstruction potentials. The theoretical framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 D. S. Lopes , A. A. de Sousa , J. S. de Sousa , D. R. da Costa , T. A. S. Pereira

An exponential representation of the S-matrix provides a natural framework for understanding the semi-classical limit of scattering amplitudes. While sharing some similarities with the eikonal formalism it differs from it in details.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Poul H. Damgaard , Ludovic Plante , Pierre Vanhove

We observe the phase space trajectory of an entangled wave packet of a trapped ion with high precision. The application of a spin dependent light force on a superposition of spin states allows for coherent splitting of the matter wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-22 Ulrich Poschinger , Andreas Walther , Kilian Singer , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

We study the dynamics of the classical and quantum mechanical scattering of a wave packet from an oscillating barrier. Our main focus is on the dependence of the transmission coefficient on the initial energy of the wave packet for a wide…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. K. Papachristou , E. Katifori , F. K. Diakonos , V. Constantoudis , E. Mavrommatis

We consider a Dice model with Dirac cones intersected by a topologically flat band at the charge neutrality point and analyze the inelastic scattering of massless pseudospin-1 particles on a circular, gate-defined, oscillating barrier.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Alexander Filusch , Christian Wurl , Holger Fehske

This work studies time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from obstacles whose interaction with the wave is fully determined by a nonlinear boundary condition. In particular, the boundary condition studied in this work enforces a power…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Jörg Nick

Quantum-classical correspondence for the average shape of eigenfunctions and the local spectral density of states are well-known facts. In this paper, the fluctuations that quantum mechanical wave functions present around the classical…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Benet , J. Flores , H. Hernandez-Saldaña , F. M. Izrailev , F. Leyvraz , T. H. Seligman

We revisit the scattering of quantum test particles on the conical $(2+1)$-dimensional spacetime and find the scatteting amplitude as a function of the boundary conditions imposed at the appex of the cone. We show that the boundary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-02 V. S. Barroso , J. P. M. Pitelli

Quantum fluctuations of electromagnetic vacuum are investigated in a half-space bounded by a perfectly reflecting plate by introducing a probe described by a charged wave-packet distribution in time-direction. The wave-packet distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Masafumi Seriu , Chun-Hsien Wu

I consider a quantum system that possesses key features of quantum shape dynamics and show that the evolution of wave-packets will become increasingly classical at late times and tend to evolve more and more like an expanding classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-21 Tim A. Koslowski

It is shown that the potential perturbation that shifts a chosen standing wave in space is a block of potential barrier and well for every wave bump between neighbouring knots. The algorithms shifting the range of the primary localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 V. M. Chabanov , B. N. Zakhariev

We study a quantum electrodynamics (QED) system made of an two-level atom and a semi-infinite rectangular waveguide, which behaves as a perfect mirror in one end. The spatial dependence of the atomic spontaneous emission has been included…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-27 Hai-Xi Song , Xiao-Qi Sun , Jing Lu , Lan Zhou

We investigate the mechanism of whistler-mode wave generation by shock-reflected electrons at quasi-perpendicular collisionless shocks. By employing Liouville mapping to construct the electron velocity distribution function in the shock and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Ruolin Wang , Takanobu Amano

When an electromagnetic (EM) wave is propagating in a medium whose properties are varied abruptly in time, the wave experiences refractions and reflections known as "time-refractions" and "time-reflections", both manifesting spectral…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-05 Thomas R. Jones , Alexander V. Kildishev , Mordechai Segev , Dimitrios Peroulis

An effective operational approach to quantum mechanics is to focus on the evolution of wave-packets, for which the wave-function can be seen in the semi-classical regime as representing a classical motion dressed with extra degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Etera R. Livine

Based on the modelling of quantum systems with the aid of (classical) non-equilibrium thermodynamics, both the emergence and the collapse of the superposition principle are understood within one and the same framework. Both are shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Gerhard Groessing , Siegfried Fussy , Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Herbert Schwabl

Post-exponential decay of the probability density of a quantum particle leaving a trap can be reproduced accurately, except for interference oscillations at the transition to the post-exponential regime, by means of an ensemble of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Torrontegui , J. G. Muga , J. Martorell , D. W. L. Sprung

Wave packet revivals and fractional revivals are striking quantum interference phenomena that can occur under suitable conditions in a system with a nonlinear spectrum. In the framework of a specific model (the propagation of an initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sudheesh , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan