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An approach to the quantum-classical mechanics of phase space dependent operators, which has been proposed recently, is remodeled as a formalism for wave fields. Such wave fields obey a system of coupled non-linear equations that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessandro Sergi

We study spreading dynamics of nematic liquid crystal droplets within the framework of the long-wave approximation. A fourth order nonlinear parabolic partial differential equation governing the free surface evolution is derived. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-07-19 Te-Sheng Lin , Lou Kondic , Uwe Thiele , Linda J. Cummings

Using a density matrix description in space we study the evolution of wavepackets in a fluctuating space-time background. We assume that space-time fluctuations manifest as classical fluctuations of the metric. From the non-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 E. Göklü , C. Lämmerzahl , A. Camacho , A. Macias

We study nonlinear dynamics of superposition of quantum wavepackets in various systems such as Kerr medium, Morse oscillator and bosonic Josephson junction. The prime reason behind this study is to find out how the superposition of states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 S. Kannan , M. Rohith , C. Sudheesh

A stationary inflection point (SIP) in the Bloch dispersion relation of a periodic waveguide is an exceptional point degeneracy where three Bloch eigenmodes coalesce forming the so-called frozen mode with a divergent amplitude and vanishing…

Motivated by a recent proposal on the possibility of observing a monopole in the band structure, and by an increasing interest on the role of Berry phase in spintronics, we studied the adiabatic motion of a wave packet of Bloch functions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-05 Ryuichi Shindou , Ken-Ichiro Imura

The nonadiabatic quantum kinetic equations and Dirac-Heisenberg-Wigner formalism for Schwinger pair production in a spatially uniform and time-varying electric field with multiple components are derived and proven to be equivalent. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-05 Z. L. Li , R. Z. Jiang , Y. J. Li

We identify a new type of periodic evolution that appears in driven quantum systems. Provided that the instantaneous (adiabatic) energies are equidistant we show how such systems can be mapped to (time-dependent) tilted single-band lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Axel Gagge , Jonas Larson

We study the evolution of a wave packet in a nonlinear Schr\"odinger lattice equation subject to a dc bias. In the absence of nonlinearity all normal modes are spatially localized giving rise to a Stark ladder with an equidistant eigenvalue…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-29 Dmitry O. Krimer , Ramaz Khomeriki , Sergej Flach

In the present work we deal with the dynamics of wave packets in a two-dimensional crystal under the action of magnetic and electric fields. The magnetic field is perpendicular to the plane and the electric field is on the plane. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 H. N. Nazareno , P. E. de Brito , E. S. Rodrigues

A quantum particle subjected to a constant force undergoes an accelerated motion following a parabolic path, which differs from the classical motion just because of wave packet spreading (quantum diffusion). However, when a periodic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Stefano Longhi

The characteristics of nonstatic quantum light waves in the coherent state in a static environment is investigated. It is shown that the shape of the wave varies periodically as a manifestation of its peculiar properties of nonstaticity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Jeong Ryeol Choi

We report new oscillations of wavepackets in quantum walks subjected to electric fields, that decorate the usual Bloch-Zener oscillations of insulators. The number of turning points (or sub-oscillations) within one Bloch period of these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 L. K. Upreti , C. Evain , S. Randoux , P. Suret , A. Amo , P. Delplace

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

We theoretically investigate Bloch oscillations in a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard chain, with single-particle losses from the odd lattice sites described by the Lindblad equation. For a single particle the time evolution of the state is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Bradley Longstaff , Eva-Maria Graefe

The dynamics in a nonlinear Schrodinger chain in an homogeneous electric field is studied. We show that discrete translational invariant integrability-breaking terms can freeze the Bloch nonlinear oscillations and introduce new faster…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 F. J. Cao

Wavepackets in quantum mechanics spread and the Universe in cosmology expands. We discuss a formalism where the two effects can be unified. The basic assumption is that the Universe is determined by a unitarily evolving wavepacket defined…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-22 Marek Czachor , Andrzej Posiewnik

An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

We investigate Bloch oscillations of wave packets in monolayer phosphorene with broken inversion symmetry. We find that the real space trajectories, Berry and group velocities of Bloch electron undergo Bloch oscillations in the system. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Abdullah Yar , Rifat Sultana

We study the time-evolution of a quantum particle subjected to time-dependent zero-range forces in two dimensions. After establishing a conceivable ansatz for the solution to the Schr\"{o}dinger equation, we prove that the wave packet…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-31 R. Carlone , M. Correggi , R. Figari