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Non-Hermitian (NH) systems have attracted great attention due to their exotic phenomena beyond Hermitian domains. Here we study the wave-packet dynamics in general one-dimensional NH lattices and uncover several unexpected phenomena. The…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yanyan He , Tomoki Ozawa

It is well known that a particle in a periodic potential with an additional constant force performs Bloch oscillations. Modulating every second period of the potential, the original Bloch band splits into two subbands. The dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Breid , D. Witthaut , H. J. Korsch

We consider a thin droplet that spreads over a flat, horizontal and chemically heterogeneous surface. The droplet is subjected to changes in its volume though a prescribed, arbitrary spatiotemporal function, which varies slowly and vanishes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-12-21 Nikos Savva , Danny Groves

In this paper we calculate and visualize the dynamics of an ensemble of electrons trapping in an electrostatic wave of slowly increasing amplitude, illustrating that, despite disordering of particles in angle during the trapping transition…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-01-29 R. L. Dewar , J. C. -C. Yap

We investigated the role that the electron-electron interaction plays on the propagating properties of wave packets in a one-dimensional crystal with impurities. We considered two interacting particles with opposite spins in a band, where…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 P. E. de Brito , E. S. Rodrigues , H. N. Nazareno

We rigorously study the long time dynamics of solitary wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in {\it time-dependent} external potentials. To set the stage, we first establish the well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Walid K. Abou Salem

We compute numerically the time evolution of simple semiclassical states describing homogeneous and isotropic spatial geometries in quantum-reduced loop gravity under a deparametrized formulation of the dynamics, in which a reference matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Ilkka Mäkinen

Pattern formation often occurs in spatially extended physical, biological and chemical systems due to an instability of the homogeneous steady state. The type of the instability usually prescribes the resulting spatio-temporal patterns and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-04-14 David Schueler , Sergio Alonso , Alessandro Torcini , Markus Baer

The transient picture for a Bloch electron accelerating in an arbitrarily time-dependent homogeneous electric field is developed. The temporal sequence for the analysis includes the instant after electron injection, followed by the time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 G. J. Iafrate , V. N. Sokolov

With the exception of the harmonic oscillator, quantum wave-packets usually spread as time evolves. We show here that, using the nonlinear resonance between an internal frequency of a system and an external periodic driving, it is possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Andreas Buchleitner , Dominique Delande , Jakub Zakrzewski

The motion of a quantum system subjected to an external force often defeats our classical intuition. A celebrated example is the dynamics of a single particle in a periodic potential, which undergoes Bloch oscillations under the action of a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-11 F. Rabec , G. Chauveau , G. Brochier , S. Nascimbene , J. Dalibard , J. Beugnon

Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures can be engineered into artificial superlattices that host flat bands with significant Berry curvature and provide a favorable environment for the emergence of novel electron dynamics. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Vo Tien Phong , E. J. Mele

In this paper, we study electron wavepacket dynamics in electric and magnetic fields. We rigorously derive the semiclassical equations of electron dynamics in electric and magnetic fields. We do it both for free electron and electron in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Navin Khaneja

In this paper we review some known results on the motion of Bloch Oscillators in the crystal momentum representation. We emphasize that the acceleration theorem, as usually stated by most of the authors, is incomplete, but in the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincenzo Grecchi , Andrea Sacchetti

Super-Bloch oscillations are the outcome of a relative phase between Bloch oscillations and modulations of the periodic lattice. We analyze the dynamics for a model system in which such a relative phase is intrinsically present due to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-27 Usman Ali , Torsten Meier

On-the-fly quantum nonadiabatic dynamics for large systems greatly benefits from the adiabatic representation readily available from the electronic structure programs. However, frequently occurring in this representation conical…

A new methodology of simulating nonadiabatic dynamics using frozen-width Gaussian wavepackets within the moving crude adiabatic representation with the on-the-fly evaluation of electronic structure is presented. The main feature of the new…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Loïc Joubert-Doriol , Artur F. Izmaylov

We present an extensive direct numerical simulation of statistically steady, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence in two-dimensional, binary-fluid mixtures with air-drag-induced friction by using the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes equations. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-16 Nairita Pal , Prasad Perlekar , Anupam Gupta , Rahul Pandit

This thesis deals with some theoretical aspects of deterministic freak wave generation in the wave basin of a hydrodynamic laboratory. We adopt the spatial nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation as a mathematical model to describe the deformation…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-06-02 Natanael Karjanto

In this paper, we report results for the wave packet dynamics in a class of quasiperiodic chains consisting of two types of weakly coupled clusters. The dynamics are studied by means of the return probability and the mean square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 Stefanie Thiem , Michael Schreiber , Uwe Grimm
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