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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

We experimentally study the dynamics of weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensates of cesium atoms in a 1D optical lattice with a periodic driving force. After a sudden start of the driving we observe the formation of stable wave packets…

We consider systems of particles hopping stochastically on $d$-dimensional lattices with space-dependent probabilities. We map the master equation onto an evolution equation in a Fock space where the dynamics are given by a quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter Schuetz , Sven Sandow

This paper investigates wave-packet dynamics in non-Hermitian lattice systems and reveals a surprising phenomenon: The simultaneous propagation of two distinct wavefronts, one traveling at the non-Hermitian velocity and the other at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Alon Beck , Moshe Goldstein

We propose an experiment allowing an observation of Zitterbewegung (ZB, trembling motion) of electrons in graphene in the presence of a magnetic field. In contrast to the existing theoretical work we make no assumptions concerning shape of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Tomasz M. Rusin , Wlodek Zawadzki

We study the properties of propagating polariton wave-packets and their connection to the stability of doubly charged vortices. Wave-packet propagation and related photoluminescence spectra exhibit a rich behaviour dependent on the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-18 M. H. Szymanska , F. M. Marchetti , D. Sanvitto

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of wave packets in a generic, non-Hermitian, optically anisotropic exciton-polariton system that exhibits degeneracies of its complex-valued eigenenergies in the form of pairs of exceptional points…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-13 Y. -M. Robin Hu , Elena A. Ostrovskaya , Eliezer Estrecho

We consider the time evolution of a wave packet representing a quantum particle moving in a geometrically open billiard that consists of a number of fixed hard-disk or hard-sphere scatterers. Using the technique of multiple collision…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arseni Goussev , J. R. Dorfman

Atomic wave packets in optical lattices which are both spatially finite and time-dependent exhibit many striking similarities with light pulses in photonic crystals. We analytically characterize the transmission properties of such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 T Lauber , P Massignan , G Birkl , A Sanpera

A particle initially in a pure state but interacting with some environment evolves into a discrete ensemble of pure states, the eigenstates of its reduced density operator, with ensemble probabilities given by the corresponding eigenvalues.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Arsam Najafian , Mark Van Raamsdonk

The time evolution of initially localized wavepackets in the discrete Hatano-Nelson lattice displays a rich dynamical structure shaped by the interplay between dispersion and nonreciprocity. Our analysis reveals a characteristic evolution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sayan Jana , Bertin Many Manda , Vassos Achilleos , Dimitrios J. Frantzeskakis , Lea Sirota

We discuss the long time behaviour of a finite energy wave packet in nonlinear Hamiltonians on infinite lattices at arbitrary dimension, exhibiting linear Anderson localization. Strong arguments both mathematical and numerical, suggest for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-12-13 Serge J. Aubry

We show the method for constructing nonspreading wave packets whose shape and motion can be general. We analyze the time evolution of nonspreading wave packets by decomposing the Hamiltonian into two parts. Of the two, one changes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Chyi-Lung Lin

We discuss the propagation dynamics of nonspreading wave packets. We decompose the Hamiltonian into two parts. The first part is such that wave packets is its instantaneous eigenstate and is therefore irrelevant to the propagation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Chyi-Lung Lin

Although diffractive spreading is an unavoidable feature of all wave phenomena, certain waveforms can attain propagation-invariance. A lesser-explored strategy for achieving optical selfsimilar propagation exploits the modification of the…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-25 H. Esat Kondakci , Ayman F. Abouraddy

In this paper a coherent superposition of angular momentum states created by absorption of polarized light by molecules is analyzed. Attention is paid to the time evolution of wave packets representing spatial orientation of internuclear…

Physics Education · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Auzinsh

We consider reflection and transmission of 2D quantum wavepackets with phase vortices (also known in optics as spatiotemporal vortex pulses) at potential step-like, delta-function, and rectangular barriers. The presence of a vortex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 Maxim Mazanov , Konstantin Y. Bliokh

We study the localization phenomena in a one-dimensional lattice system with a uniformly moving disordered potential. At a low moving velocity, we find a sliding localized phase in which the initially localized matter wave adiabatically…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-07-06 Chenyue Guo , Zi Cai

A family of wave packets with power law tails are employed to analyze the long time dependence of the corresponding probability density. The densities, associated to packets for free particles in the one-dimensional space, with sufficiently…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Mendes , C. Anteneodo

We study the dynamics of an Airy wavepacket moving in a one-dimensional lattice potential. In contrast to the usual case of propagation in a continuum, for which such a wavepacket experiences a uniform acceleration, the lattice bounds its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 C. E. Creffield