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We demonstrate that an effect other than anharmonicity can severely distort the spectroscopic signatures of quantum mechanical systems. This is done through an analytic calculation of the spectroscopic response of a simple system, a charged…

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We consider the problem of the motion of a projectile thrown vertically upward from a surface. In addition to gravity, the drag force of the medium is taken into account, which is considered a quadratic function of the relative velocity of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Peter Chudinov

We consider the motion of a harmonically trapped overdamped particle, which is submitted to a self-phoretic force, that is proportional to the gradient of a diffusive field for which the particle itself is the source. In agreement with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 A. Alexandre , L. Anderson , T. Collin-Dufresne , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

Harmonic oscillator in Fock space is defined. Isospectral as well as polynomiality-of-eigenfunctions preserving, translation-invariant discretization of the harmonic oscillator is presented. Dilatation-invariant and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Turbiner

In piano playing, different ways of touch lead to different tones. The effects of changing forces on keys are presented by changing interaction between hammer and string. The thesis focuses on several important variables in hammer-string…

General Physics · Physics 2010-11-23 Lai-Mei Nie

Propulsion of otherwise passive objects is achieved by mechanisms of active driving. We concentrate on cases in which the direction of active drive is subject to spontaneous symmetry breaking. In our case, this direction will be maintained,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-07-08 Andreas M. Menzel

Despite the simple impact of a rigid particle being a centuries old problem, a conclusive treatment of the general case is still outstanding. The influences of particle shape as well as elastic and plastic deformation of the particle upon…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-20 Dominik Krengel

We derive the partition function of the one-body and two-body systems of classical noncommutative harmonic oscillator in two dimensions. Then, we employ the path integral approach to the quantum noncommutative harmonic oscillator and derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-08 I. Jabbari , A. Jahan , Z. Riazi

In this paper, we use the fractional calculus to discuss the fractional mechanics, where the time derivative is replaced with the fractional derivative of order $\nu$. We deal with the motion of a body in a resisting medium where the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Won Sang Chung , Min Jung

We consider the quantum harmonic oscillator in contact with a finite temperature bath, modelled by the Caldeira-Leggett master equation. Applying periodic kicks to the oscillator, we study the system in different dynamical regimes between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 M. A. Prado , P. C. López Vázquez , T. Gorin

The concept of a ponderomotive force due to the intrinsic spin of electrons is developed. An expression containing both the classical as well as the spin-induced ponderomotive force is derived. The results are used to demonstrate that an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. Brodin , A. P. Misra , M. Marklund

We study the influence of perturbations in the three dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator problem considering different perturbing force laws and apply our results in the context of celestial mechanics, particularly in the movement of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 J. Oliveira-Cony , C. Farina

The ballistic impact of various dense particle suspensions is of interest for the development of superior materials for personal protective equipment. The dynamic response of the fluids under impact of a fragment simulating projectile at…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-19 Bradley J. Marr , Oren E. Petel , Andrew J. Higgins , David L. Frost , Simon Ouellet

A brief description of the relations between the factorization method in quantum mechanics, self-similar potentials, integrable systems and the theory of special functions is given. New coherent states of the harmonic oscillator related to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 V. P. Spiridonov

Boundary effects in quantum mechanics are examined by considering a partition wall inserted at the centre of a harmonic oscillator system. We put an equal number of particles on both sides of the impenetrable wall keeping the system under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Fulop , I. Tsutsui

By modeling the particle as a two-dimensional oscillator with the natural angular frequency equal to the Zitterbewegung frequency, the expression of the gravitational force between two particles is obtained. Gravitational force is the…

General Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Ion Simaciu , Zoltan Borsos , Viorel Drafta , Gheorghe Dumitrescu

Dynamic friction force, diffusion tensor, flux density in velocity space, and Coulomb collision term are expressed in curvilinear coordinates via Trubnikov potential functions corresponding to each species of background plasma. For…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-09-09 P. R. Goncharov

The dynamics of wavepackets in a relativistic Dirac oscillator (DO) is considered. A comparison to nonrelativistic spin-orbit pendulum effect is discussed. Particular relativistic effects, like Zitterbewegung in spin motion, are found in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Turek , P. Rozmej

We study dynamics of the inverted pendulum on the wheel on a soft surface and under a proportional-integral-derivative controller. The behaviour of such pendulum is modelled by a system with a differential inclusion. If the the system has a…

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