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We demonstrate that the time operator that measures the time of arrival of a quantum particle into chosen state can be defined as a self-adjoint quantum-mechanical operator using periodic boundary conditions on applied to wavefuncions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 P. Bokes

Coherent states play an important role in quantum mechanics because of their unique properties under time evolution. Here we explore this concept for one-dimensional repulsive nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations, which describe weakly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-25 Simon Moulieras , Alejandro G. Monastra , Marcos Saraceno , Patricio Leboeuf

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

Based on our recently proposed plane wave framework, we theoretically study the localized-extended transition in the one dimensional incommensurate systems with cosine type of potentials, which are in close connection to many recent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Huajie Chen , Aihui Zhou , Yuzhi Zhou

We develop a new variant of the wave-packet analysis and solve the tunneling time problem for one particle. Our approach suggests an individual asymptotic description of the quantum subensembles of transmitted and reflected particles both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

Based on the work done by an electromagnetic field on an atomic or molecular electronic system, a general gauge invariant formulation of transient absorption spectroscopy is presented within the semi-classical approximation. Avoiding…

We investigate the time an electronic excitation travels in a supermolecular setup using a measurement process in an open quantum-system framework. The approach is based on the stochastic Schr\"odinger equation and uses a Hamiltonian from…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-09 Dirk Hofmann , Heiko Appel , Massimiliano Di Ventra , Stephan Kümmel

Atmospheric turbulence makes free-space quantum polarization links intrinsically time varying, whereas receiver-side reduced interfaces are often treated as static. This paper develops a slow-time receiver interface by extending an…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Heyang Peng , Seid Koudia , Symeon Chatzinotas

Wave propagation in ray-chaotic scenarios, characterized by exponential sensitivity to ray-launching conditions, is a topic of significant interest, with deep phenomenological implications and important applications, ranging from optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Giuseppe Castaldi , Vincenzo Galdi , Innocenzo M. Pinto

Hagedorn functions are carefully constructed generalizations of Hermite functions to the setting of many-dimensional squeezed and coupled harmonic systems. Wavepackets formed by superpositions of Hagedorn functions have been successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Jiří J. L. Vaníček , Zhan Tong Zhang

Space-time modulation of refractive index can produce synthetically moving interfaces with arbitrary apparent velocities, including superluminal motion, offering new ways to control light in dynamic media. On the other hand, space-time wave…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Zeki Hayran , John B. Pendry

Complex systems are often characterized by the interplay of multiple interconnected dynamical processes operating across a range of temporal scales. This phenomenon is widespread in both biological and artificial scenarios, making it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-08 Giorgio Nicoletti , Daniel M. Busiello

Methods of quantum nuclear wave-function dynamics have become very efficient in simulating large isolated systems using the time-dependent variational principle (TDVP). However, a straightforward extension of the TDVP to the density matrix…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Loic Joubert-Doriol , Artur F. Izmaylov

We introduce the wavelet scattering spectra which provide non-Gaussian models of time-series having stationary increments. A complex wavelet transform computes signal variations at each scale. Dependencies across scales are captured by the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-06-21 Rudy Morel , Gaspar Rochette , Roberto Leonarduzzi , Jean-Philippe Bouchaud , Stéphane Mallat

Time modulation of the physical parameters offers interesting new possibilities for wave control. Examples include amplification of waves, harmonic generation and non-reciprocity, without resorting to non-linear mechanisms. Most of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Michaël Darche , Raphaël Assier , Sébastien Guenneau , Bruno Lombard , Marie Touboul

The stationary phase method is often employed for computing tunneling {\em phase} times of analytically-continuous {\em gaussian} or infinite-bandwidth step pulses which collide with a potential barrier. The indiscriminate utilization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-04 Alex E. Bernardini

We derive an extension of the standard time dependent WKB theory which can be applied to propagate coherent states and other strongly localised states for long times. It allows in particular to give a uniform description of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Roman Schubert , Raul O. Vallejos , Fabricio Toscano

The Wigner-Smith (WS) time delay matrix relates a lossless system's scattering matrix to its frequency derivative. First proposed in the realm of quantum mechanics to characterize time delays experienced by particles during a collision,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Utkarsh R. Patel , Yiqian Mao , Eric Michielssen

It has long been established that turbulent jets comprise large-scale coherent structures, now more commonly referred to as "wavepackets". These structures exhibit a remarkable spatio-temporal organisation, despite turbulence. In this work…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-27 Onofrio Semeraro , Francois Lusseyran , Luc Pastur , Peter Jordan

A Bohmian analysis of the so-called Schr\"{o}dinger-Langevin or Kostin nonlinear differential equation is provided to study how thermal fluctuations of the environment affects the dynamics of the wave packet from a quantum hydrodynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés