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The phenomenon of wavepacket diffraction in space and time is investigated numerically and analytically, for a one-dimensional array of equally spaced finite-depth wells. Theoretical predictions for the lattice at long times and at low…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kälbermann

Semiconductor devices are strong competitors in the race for the development of quantum com-putational systems. In this work, we interface two semiconductor building blocks of different di-mensionality and with complementary properties: (1)…

Vortices are a hallmark of topologically nontrivial dynamics in nonlinear physics and arise in a huge variety of systems, from space and atmosphere to condensed matter and quantum gases. In optics, vortices manifest as phase twists of the…

Classically, wave interference is a phenomenon that can be explained by considering only the waves themselves, that is, without the need to consider the apparatus that monitors or observes them. Thus, in classical theories, interference can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Alexandre Cesar Ricardo , Ciro Micheletti Diniz , Celso Jorge Villas-Bôas

Quantum interference takes center stage in the realm of quantum particles, playing a crucial role in revealing their wave-like nature and probabilistic behavior. It relies on the concept of superposition, where the probability amplitudes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Sajad Ahmadi , Mohsen Akbari , Shahpoor Saeidian , Ali Motazedifard

Understanding turbulence is the key to our comprehension of many natural and technological flow processes. At the heart of this phenomenon lies its intricate multi-scale nature, describing the coupling between different-sized eddies in…

A time-dependent theory for the interactions between spatially separated lossy cavities in a homogeneous background medium using quantized quasinormal modes (QNMs) is presented. The cavities interact via a bath of traveling photons,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Robert Meiners Fuchs , Juanjuan Ren , Sebastian Franke , Stephen Hughes , Marten Richter

Superfluid turbulence consisting of quantized vortices is called quantum turbulence (QT). Quantum turbulence and quantized vortices were discovered in superfluid $^4$He about 50 years ago, but innovation has occurred recently in this field.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Makoto Tsubota

Quantum hydrodynamics in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) has been recently one of the most important topics in low temperature physics. In these systems, a macroscopic wave function appears because of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-11 Makoto Tsubota , Michikazu Kobayashi , Hiromitsu Takeuchi

Due to a transient quantum interference during a wavepacket collision with a potential barrier, a particular momentum, that depends on the potential parameters but is close to the initial average momentum, becomes suppressed. The hole left…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. L. Perez Prieto , S. Brouard , J. G. Muga

The evolution of the quantum wave packet describing an atom trapped in the surface-tip junction of the scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by using the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, and by a quasi-classical Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. Grigorescu

Photonic temporal crystals host a variety of intriguing phenomena, from wave amplification and mixing to exotic band structures, all stemming from the time-periodic modulation of optical properties. While these features have been well…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Junhyeon Bae , Kyungmin Lee , Bumki Min , Kun Woo Kim

By pursuing the deep relation between the one-dimensional Dirac equation and quantum walks, the physical role of quantum interference in the latter is explained. It is shown that the time evolution of the probability density of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Frederick W. Strauch

We describe in detail a physical situation in which instantons are necessarily complex, not just Wick rotations of classical solutions to Euclidean spacetime. These complex instantons arise in the semiclassical evaluation of vacuum pair…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-15 Cesim K. Dumlu , Gerald V. Dunne

Coherence lengths of one particle states described by quantum wave functions are studied. We show that one particle states in various situations are not described by simple plane waves but are described by wave packets that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

We consider a pair of three-level atoms interacting with the vacuum. The process of disentanglement due to spontaneous emission and the role of quantum interference between principal transitions in this process, are analysed. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Derkacz , L. Jakobczyk

Vortex filament model has become a standard and powerful tool to visualize the motion of quantized vortices in helium superfluids. In this article, we present an overview of the method and highlight its impact in aiding our understanding of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-04-29 Risto Hänninen , Andrew W. Baggaley

Spontaneous pattern formation out of homogeneous media is one of the well-understood examples of hydrodynamic instabilities in classical systems, which naturally leads to the question of its manifestation in quantum fluids. Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-12 Kiryang Kwon , Jae-yoon Choi

This article reviews recent theoretical and experimental advances in the fundamental understanding and active control of quantum fluids of light in nonlinear optical systems. In presence of effective photon-photon interactions induced by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-25 Iacopo Carusotto , Cristiano Ciuti