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One of the most fundamental difference between classical and quantum mechanics is observed in the particle tunneling through a localized potential: the former predicts a discontinuous transmission coefficient ($T$) as a function in incident…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Ching-Hao Wang , Tzay-Ming Hong , Ray-Kuang Lee , Daw-Wei Wang

Two recent studies have presented new information relevant to the transition from quantum behavior to classical behavior, and related this to parameters characterizing the universe as a whole. The present study based on a separate approach…

General Physics · Physics 2007-06-12 C. L. Herzenberg

We describe both quantum particles and classical particles in terms of a classical statistical ensemble, characterized by a probability distribution in phase space. By use of a wave function in phase space both can be treated in the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 C. Wetterich

A plane, monochromatic electromagnetic wave propagating in free space can have a certain amount of spin angular momentum but cannot possess any orbital angular momentum. Even the spin angular momentum of the plane-wave is difficult to…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-03 Masud Mansuripur

We study the dynamics of the classical and quantum mechanical scattering of a wave packet from an oscillating barrier. Our main focus is on the dependence of the transmission coefficient on the initial energy of the wave packet for a wide…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 P. K. Papachristou , E. Katifori , F. K. Diakonos , V. Constantoudis , E. Mavrommatis

We revisit the Schwarzschild singularity in a semiclassical setting where the background geometry is classical and quantum effects enter through Bohmian (quantal) trajectories associated with a Klein Gordon wave packet. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Vishnulal Cheriyodathillathu , Tanmay Patil , Saurya Das , Soumen Basak

In objective gravitational reduction of the wave function of a quantum system, the classical limit of the system is obtained in terms of the objective properties of the system. On the other hand, in Bohmian quantum mechanics the usual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Faramarz Rahmani , Mehdi Golshani , Ghadir Jafari

This interpretation establishes a completely classical ontology -- only the classical trajectory in configuration space -- and interprets the wave function as describing incomplete information (in form of a probability flow) about this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 I. Schmelzer

It is shown that electromagnetic vortices can act as beam guides for charged particles. The confinement in the transverse directions is due to the rotation of the electric and magnetic fields around the vortex line. Large class of exact…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

According to general relativity, trapping surfaces and horizons are classical causal structures that arise in systems with sharply defined energy and corresponding gravitational radius. The latter concept can be extended to a quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Casadio

We quantise and solve the dynamics of gravitational waves in a quantum Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker spacetime filled with perfect fluid. The classical model is formulated canonically. The Hamiltonian constraint is de-parametrised by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Hervé Bergeron , Jean Pierre Gazeau , Przemysław Małkiewicz

A quantum computing circuit is presented that approximates a single spin wave quantum on a linear chain of spin 1/2 particles described by a Heisenberg Hamiltonian. The circuit is a product state where each qubit represents a spin. The spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Daniel D. Stancil , Bojko N. Bakalov , Gregory T. Byrd

The properties of low-density, low-energy matter wavepackets propagating through waveguide bends are investigated. Time-dependent quantum mechanical calculations using simple harmonic oscillator confining potentials are performed for a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. W. J. Bromley , B. D. Esry

Some connections between quantum mechanics and classical physics are explored. The Planck-Einstein and De Broglie relations, the wavefunction and its probabilistic interpretation, the Canonical Commutation Relations and the Maxwell--Lorentz…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. H. Field

We consider the semiclassical equations of motion of a particle when both an external electromagnetic field and the Berry gauge field in the momentum space are present. It is shown that these equations are Hamiltonian and relations between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Yu. Bliokh

A classical circularly polarized electromagnetic wave carries angular momentum, and represents the classical limit of a photon, which carries quantized spin. It is shown that a very similar picture of a circularly polarized coherent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Kadin

Classical physics is about real objects, like apples falling from trees, whose motion is governed by Newtonian laws. In standard Quantum Mechanics only the wave function or the results of measurements exist, and to answer the question of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Valia Allori , Detlef Dürr , Shelly Goldstein , Nino Zanghí

By using the multipolar gauge it is shown that the quantum mechanics of an electrically charged particle moving in a prescribed classical electromagnetic field (wave mechanics) may be expressed in a manner that is gauge invariant, except…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Stewart

We have previously presented a version of the Weak Equivalence Principle for a quantum particle as an exact analog of the classical case, based on the Heisenberg picture analysis of free particle motion. Here, we take that to a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Otto C. W. Kong

We derive new solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation which describe the motion of particles in the Penning trap. These solutions are direct counterparts of classical orbits. They are obtained by injection of classical trajectories into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-26 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula