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Macroscopic quantum optical effects (Schrodinger cat states, squeezing, collapse and revival) for light beams propagating in an inhomogeneous linear medium are demonstrated using exact analytical solutions of wave equation. It is shown that…

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The one particle quantum mechanics is considered in the frame of a N-body classical kinetics in the phase space. Within this framework, the scenario of a subquantum structure for the quantum particle, emerges naturally, providing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kaniadakis

We consider an initially bound quantum particle subject to an external time-dependent field. When the external field is large, the particle shows a tendency to repeatedly return to its initial state, irrespective of whether the frequency of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 V. Poduri , D. A. Browne , U. Patil

Quantum foundations are still unsettled, with mixed effects on science and society. By now it should be possible to obtain consensus on at least one issue: Are the fundamental constituents fields or particles? As this paper shows,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Art Hobson

We describe a quantum particle constrained on a catenoid, employing an effective description of quantum mechanics based on expected values of observables and quantum dispersions. We obtain semiclassical trajectories for particles,…

Diffraction in time of a particle confined in a box which its walls are removed suddenly at $t=0$ is studied. The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation is discussed analytically and numerically for various initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 S. V. Mousavi

We analyze the non-relativistic problem of a quantum particle that bounces back and forth between two moving walls. We recast this problem into the equivalent one of a quantum particle in a fixed box whose dynamics is governed by an…

What is fundamentally quantum? We argue that most of the features, problems, and paradoxes -- such as the measurement problem, the Wigner's friend paradox and its proposed solutions, single particle nonlocality, and no-cloning -- allegedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Flavio Del Santo , Nicolas Gisin

We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional classical particle in a space and time dependent potential with randomly chosen parameters. The focus of this work is a quasi-periodic potential, which only includes a finite number of Fourier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Tal Kachman , Shmuel Fishman , Avy Soffer

We show that in the framework of one-dimensional Bohmian Quantum Mechanics[1], for a particle subject to a potential undergoing a weak adiabatic change, the time averages of the particle's positions typically differ markedly from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yakir Aharonov , Noam Erez , Marlan O. Scully

Concept of inertial mass is not well defined in physics. For defining inertial mass of a particle we need to know its acceleration under some force in an inertial reference frame, which itself is defined by the motion of its background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-17 Santanu Das

In deformed or doubly special relativity (DSR) the action of the lorentz group on momentum eigenstates is deformed to preserve a maximal momenta or minimal length, supposed equal to the Planck length. The classical and quantum dynamics of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Lee Smolin

A phenomenological model of the time evolution of a particle wavepacket is presented that is subject to scattering event with small momentum transfer. It is suited for three dimensions and allows for an additional potential. For a random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivo Knittel

In looking for qualitative differences between quaternionic and complex formulations of quantum physical theories, we provide a detailed discussion of the behavior of a wave packet in presence of a quaternionic time-independent potential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Stefano De Leo , Gisele C. Ducati

Indistinguishability of particles is normally considered to be an inherently quantum property which cannot be possessed by a classical theory. However, Saunders has argued that this is incorrect, and that classically indistinguishable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Gottesman

We develop a quasi-analytical theory for the quantum reflection amplitude of Bose-Einstein condensates. We derive and calculate the decay-width of a Bose-Einstein condensate. A general relation between the time-dependent decay-law of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alexander Jurisch , Jan-Michael Rost

The suggestion that particles of the same kind may be indistinguishable in a fundamental sense, even so that challenges to traditional notions of individuality and identity may arise, has first come up in the context of classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Dennis Dieks

Branching flow -- a phenomenon known for steady wave propagation in two-dimensional weak correlated random potential is also present in the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a single particle in one dimension, moving in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Jakub Šťavina , Peter Bokes

We present a resolution of the Klein paradox within the framework of one-particle relativistic quantum mechanics. Not only reflection becomes total but the vacuum remains neutral as well. This is accomplished by replacing the pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-26 A. D. Alhaidari

Atom reflection is studied in the presence of a non-Abelian vector potential proportional to a spin-1/2 operator. The potential is produced by a relatively simple laser configuration for atoms with a tripod level scheme. We show that the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-27 Gediminas Juzeliunas , Julius Ruseckas , Andreas Jacob , Luis Santos , Patrik Ohberg