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The evolution problem for a quantum particle confined in a 1D box and interacting with one fixed point through a time dependent point interaction is considered. Under suitable assumptions of regularity for the time profile of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Andrea Mantile

Solitary waves in one-dimensional periodic media are discussed employing the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a spatially periodic potential as a model. This equation admits two families of gap solitons that bifurcate from the edges of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-09-06 T. R. Akylas , Guenbo Hwang , Jianke Yang

We consider the propagation of waves in a waveguide with Neumann boundary conditions. We work at low wavenumber with only one propagating mode in the leads, all the other modes being evanescent. We assume that the waveguide is symmetric…

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Solution of Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary condition on finite interval is equivalently reformulated as steady state of initial boundary value problem for first order hyperbolic system of partial differential equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Ramaz Botchorishvili , Tamar Janelidze

The motion of a quantum particle constrained to a two-dimensional non-compact Riemannian manifold with non-trivial metric can be described by a flat-space Schroedinger-type equation at the cost of introducing local mass and metric and…

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We study a Helmholtz-type spectral problem related to the propagation of electromagnetic waves in photonic crystal waveguides. The waveguide is created by introducing a linear defect into a two-dimensional periodic medium. The defect is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Malcolm Brown , Vu Hoang , Michael Plum , Ian Wood

We study 4 problems in the area of scattering of time harmonic acoustic or electromagnetic waves by unbounded rough surfaces/inhomogeneous layers. Specifically we study: i) a boundary value problem (BVP) for the Helmholtz equation, in both…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Thomas Baden-Riess

We consider a quantum particle in a waveguide which consists of an infinite straight Dirichlet strip divided by a thin semitransparent barrier on a line parallel to the walls which is modeled by a $\delta$ potential. We show that if the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Exner , D. Krejcirik

Quantum entanglement does not necessarily imply Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering. We identify a \emph{boundary mechanism} that closes this gap when an entangled state meets the boundary of the trusted state space in a nondegenerate way. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Yu-Xuan Zhang , Jing-Ling Chen

We review our recent results on the on-shell description of sine-Gordon model with integrable boundary conditions. We determined the spectrum of boundary states together with their reflection factors by closing the boundary bootstrap and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bajnok , L. Palla , G. Takacs

The existence of bound states in quantum mechanics with no classical counterpart has been a subject of interest for a long time. Cross-wires and cavities connected to infinite leads are typical examples in which open geometries with bulges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-18 Emerson Sadurni

A classical particle under spatial constraints is strictly confined to live on a specific space manifold or path, but this assumption is incompatible with the zero-point fluctuations of a quantum particle. One way to describe quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Tim Bergmann , Benjamin Schwager , Jamal Berakdar

A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lutz Angermann

Thermodynamic properties of confined systems depend on sizes of the confinement domain due to quantum nature of particles. Here we show that shape also enters as a control parameter on thermodynamic state functions. By considering specially…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-29 Alhun Aydin , Altug Sisman

We generalize the known solution of the Schr\"odinger equation, describing a particle confined to a triangular area, for a triangular graphene quantum dot with armchair-type boundaries. The quantization conditions, wave functions, and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 A. V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

We investigate inverse diffraction problems for penetrable gratings in a piecewise constant medium. In the TE polarization case, it is proved that a binary grating profile together with the refractive index beneath it can be uniquely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Jianli Xiang , Guanghui Hu

We study the problem of the boundary conditions in the numerical simulation of closed and open quantum systems, described by a Schr\"odinger equation. On one hand, we show that a closed quantum system is defined by local boundary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Marco Patriarca

Exact solutions describing trapped modes in a plane quantum waveguide with a small rigid obstacle are constructed in the form of convergent series in powers of the small parameter characterizing the smallness of the obstacle. The terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. De la Paz Méndez

We investigate spectral properties of a quantum particle confined to an infinite straight planar strip by imposing Robin boundary conditions with variable coupling. Assuming that the coupling function tends to a constant at infinity, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-25 Martin Jilek

The boundary modes of one dimensional quantum systems can play host to a variety of remarkable phenomena. They can be used to describe the physics of impurities in higher dimensional systems, such as the ubiquitous Kondo effect or can…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-24 Colin Rylands