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The dominant source of decoherence for an electron spin in a quantum dot is the hyperfine interaction with the surrounding bath of nuclear spins. The decoherence process may be slowed down by subjecting the electron spin to suitable…

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Our paper concerns the scattering of intense laser radiation on free electrons and it is focused on the relation between nonlinear Compton and nonlinear Thomson scattering. The analysis is performed for a laser field modeled by an ideal…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-10-25 M. Boca , V. Florescu

The classical and quantum aspects of planar Coulomb interactions have been studied in detail. In the classical scenario, Action Angle Variables are introduced to handle relativistic corrections, in the scheme of time-independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Subir Ghosh

We investigate theoretically the ability of an optical centrifuge - a laser pulse whose linear polarization is rotating at an accelerated rate, to control molecular rotation in the regime when the rigid-rotor approximation breaks down due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 J. M. García-Garrido , V. Milner , C. P. Koch , R. González-Férez

Quantum kernels are reproducing kernel functions built using quantum-mechanical principles and are studied with the aim of outperforming their classical counterparts. The enthusiasm for quantum kernel machines has been tempered by recent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Hachem Kadri , Joachim Tomasi , Yuka Hashimoto , Sandrine Anthoine

The extraordinary success in laser cooling, trapping, and coherent manipulation of atoms has energized the efforts in extending this exquisite control to molecules. Not only are molecules ubiquitous in nature, but the control of their…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 D. Mitra , K. H. Leung , T. Zelevinsky

When an electromagnetic field in a coherent or quasiclassical (e.g., squeezed) state is used to simultaneously drive an ensemble of two-level atoms, the quantum nature of the field will, in general, cause the final state of the atoms to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Hunter Lindemann , Shanon Vuglar , Julio Gea-Banacloche

We simulate the center of mass motion of cold atoms in a standing, amplitude modulated, laser field as an example of a system that has a classical mixed phase-space. We show a simple model to explain the momentum distribution of the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hug , G. J. Milburn

We show that circularly polarized femtosecond laser pulses produce field-free alignment in linear and planar molecules. We study the rotational wavepacket evolution of O$_2$ and benzene created by circularly polarized light. For benzene, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-06-06 C T L Smeenk , P B Corkum

Significant molecular orientation can be achieved by time-symmetric single-cycle pulses of zero area, in the THz region. We show that in spite of the existence of a combined time-space symmetry operation, not only large peak instantaneous…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2012-10-22 Juan Ortigoso

We investigate the classical and quantum dynamics of an electron confined to a circular quantum dot in the presence of homogeneous $B_{dc}+B_{ac}$ magnetic fields. The classical motion shows a transition to chaotic behavior depending on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Badrinarayanan , Jorge V. José

Biological information processing is generally assumed to be classical. Measured cellular energy budgets of both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, however, fall orders of magnitude short of the power required to maintain classical states of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Chris Fields , Michael Levin

The paper reviews positive and negative time delays in various processes of classical and quantum physics. In the beginning, we demonstrate how a time-shifted response of a system to an external perturbation appears in classical mechanics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 E. E. Kolomeitsev , D. N. Voskresensky

We review on the theoretical status of intense laser orientation and alignment. The evolution of the rotational wave packet and its dynamics leading to orientation and alignment is the topic of the present discussion. The major part of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Vijit V. Nautiyal , Sumana Devi , Ashish Tyagi , Bhawna Vidhani , Anjali Maan , Vinod Prasad

The kicked rotor and the kicked top are two paradigms of quantum chaos. The notions of quantum resonance and the pseudoclassical limit, developed in the study of the kicked rotor, have revealed an intriguing and unconventional aspect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Zhixing Zou , Jiao Wang

One of the crucial differences between mathematical models of classical and quantum mechanics is the use of the tensor product of the state spaces of subsystems as the state space of the corresponding composite system. (To describe an…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-03 Andrei Khrennikov

Quantum entanglement is known as a unique quantum feature that cannot be obtained by classical physics. Over the last several decades, however, such an understanding on quantum entanglement might have confined us in a limited world of weird…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 B. S. Ham

One of the best signatures of nonclassicality in a quantum system is the existence of correlations that have no classical counterpart. Different methods for quantifying the quantum and classical parts of correlations are amongst the more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Kavan Modi , Aharon Brodutch , Hugo Cable , Tomasz Paterek , Vlatko Vedral

High harmonic generation in benzene is studied using a mixed quantum-classical approach in which the electrons are described using time-dependent density functional theory while the ions move classically. The interaction with both…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Abigail Wardlow , Daniel Dundas

We show that a Bose-Einstein condensate of heteronuclear molecules in the regime of small and static electric fields is described by a quantum rotor model for the macroscopic electric dipole moment of the molecular gas cloud. We solve this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-04 J. Armaitis , R. A. Duine , H. T. C. Stoof