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We find an exact analytical solution of the reduced density matrix from the Feynman-Vernon influence functional theory for a wave packet influenced by an environment containing a few discrete modes. We obtain two intrinsic energy scales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Matisse W. Y. Tu , Wei-Min Zhang

Time evolution of macroscopic systems is re-examined primarily through further analysis and extension of the equation of motion for the density matrix $\rho(t)$. Because $\rho$ contains both classical and quantum-mechanical probabilities it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Grandy

Starting from the kinetic equations for the fluctuations and correlations of a dilute gas of inelastic hard spheres or disks, a Boltzmann-Langevin equation for the one-particle distribution function of the homogeneous cooling state is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Javier Brey , P. Maynar , M. I. Garcia de Soria

A recently developed wavelet based approach is employed to characterize the scaling behavior of spectral fluctuations of random matrix ensembles, as well as complex atomic systems. Our study clearly reveals anti-persistent behavior and…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Manimaran , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , P. Anantha Lakshmi

Waves in space-dependent and time-dependent materials obey similar wave equations, with interchanged time- and space-coordinates. However, since the causality conditions are the same in both types of material (i.e., without interchangement…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Kees Wapenaar , Johannes Aichele , Dirk-Jan van Manen

Earlier we showed that the fine structure of the spectrum of amplitude variations in the results of measurements of the processes of different nature (in other words, the fine structure of the dispersion of results or the pattern of the…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon E. Shnoll

In this work, the short-time dynamics of simple liquid is explored both analytically and numerically with the focus on the interplay between the density fluctuations in a volume surrounding a chosen particle and its random walk motion. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-26 Eugene B. Postnikov

1) A wave equation is derived from the kinetic equations governing media with rotational as well as translational degrees of freedom. In this wave the fluctuating quantity is a vector, the bulk spin. The transmission is similar to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Lukas Saul

Lower bounds on fluctuations of thermodynamic currents depend on the nature of time: discrete or continuous. To understand the physical reason, we compare current fluctuations in discrete-time Markov chains and continuous-time master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-21 Davide Chiuchiù , Simone Pigolotti

I apply the scattering approach within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics to derive the variances and mean values of the energy density and intensity for a system of an arbitrary object in an arbitrary environment. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Florian Herz

Fluctuation terms and higher moments of a quantum state imply corrections to the classical equations of motion that may have implications in early-universe cosmology, for instance in the state-dependent form of effective potentials. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-10 Martin Bojowald , Freddy Hancock

Wave packet broadening in usual quantum mechanics is a consequence of dispersion behavior of the medium which the wave propagates in it. In this paper, we consider the problem of wave packet broadening in the framework of Generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kourosh Nozari , S. H. Mehdipour

We consider a nonlocal Fisher-KPP equation that models a population structured in space and in phenotype. The population lives in a heterogeneous periodic environment: the diffusion coefficient, the mutation coefficient and the fitness of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Nathanaël Boutillon

In this proceeding, we study the evolution of energy density fluctuations in the presence of a static and uniform magnetic field. By numerically solving the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation within the relaxation time approximation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Shreyansh S. Dave , Subrata Pal

We study the Brownian motion of a classical particle in one-dimensional inhomogeneous environments where the transition probabilities follow quasiperiodic or aperiodic distributions. Exploiting an exact correspondence with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Igloi , L. Turban , H. Rieger

The Liouville-von Neumann equation describes the change in the density matrix with time. Interestingly, this equation was recently regarded as a wave equation for wave functions but not a equation for density functions. This setting leads…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Youngwoo Koh , Yoonjung Lee , Ihyeok Seo

Scattering of a Gaussian wavepacket from rectangular potential barriers with increasing widths or heights is studied numerically. It is seen that during a certain time interval the time-evolving transmission probability increases compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Karami , S. V. Mousavi

We discuss metric perturbations of the relativistic diffusion equation around the homogeneous Juttner equilibrium of massless particles in a homogeneous expanding universe. The metric perturbation describes matter distribution and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-27 Z. Haba

We investigate the propagation of a wave--packet in the $\phi^4$ model. We solve the time-dependent equation of motion for two distinct initial conditions: The wave-packet in a trivial vacuum background and in the background of the kink…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-08-31 A. M. H. H. Abdelhady , H. Weigel

Understanding the dynamics of material objects advected by turbulent flows is a long standing question in fluid dynamics. In this perspective article we focus on the characterization of the statistical properties of non-interacting…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Yaning Fan , Cheng Wang , Linfeng Jiang , Chao Sun , Enrico Calzavarini