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We explore the theory of electrons confined by one dimensional power law potentials. We calculate the density profile in the high density electron gas, the low density Wigner crystal, and the intermediate regime. We extract the momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erich J. Mueller

Resonant tunnelling is studied numerically and analytically with the help of a three-well quantum one-dimensional time-independent model. The simplest cases are considered where the three-well potential is polynomial or piecewise constant.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jérémy Le Deunff , Olivier Brodier , Amaury Mouchet

We analyze vacuum tunneling in quantum field theory in a general formalism by using the Wigner representation. In the standard instanton formalism, one usually approximates the initial false vacuum state by an eigenstate of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-15 Mark P. Hertzberg , Masaki Yamada

We revisit the problem of quantum tunneling for a particle moving in the continuum, and in the absence of a magnetic field. In all spatial dimensions, we extend previous results to the case where the single-well potential satisfies…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

A class of signed joint probability measures for n arbitrary quantum observables is derived and studied based on quasi-characteristic functions with symmetrized operator orderings of Margenau-Hill type. It is shown that the Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Ralph Sabbagh , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Hamid Hezari , Tryphon T. Georgiou

The properties of an alternative definition of quantum entropy, based on Wigner functions, are discussed. Such definition emerges naturally from the Wigner representation of quantum mechanics, and can easily quantify the amount of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Manfredi , M. R. Feix

Regular quasiprobabilities are introduced for the aim of characterizing quantum correlations of multimode radiation fields. Negativities of these quantum-correlation quasiprobabilities are necessary and sufficient for any quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 E. Agudelo , J. Sperling , W. Vogel

The Wigner function for one and two-mode quantum systems is explicitely expressed in terms of the marginal distribution for the generic linearly transformed quadratures. Then, also the density operator of those systems is written in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. M. D'Ariano , S. Mancini , V. I. Man'ko , P. Tombesi

We report on the first direct observation of coherent control of single particle tunneling in a strongly driven double well potential. In our setup atoms propagate in a periodic arrangement of double wells allowing the full control of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Kierig , U. Schnorrberger , A. Schietinger , J. Tomkovic , M. K. Oberthaler

Recent developments in the understanding of real-time path integrals led to the development of the ``steadyon picture'' for the semi-classical calculation of quantum tunneling rates. We discuss tunneling out of a generic localized initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Joshua Lin , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Thomas Steingasser

We show that the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation can be easily implemented in quantum phase space through the method of quasi-distributions. This method establishes a connection with the formalism of the Wigner function. As a by-product, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

Superconducting qubits already demonstrated potential in emulating coherent back scattering or weak localization (WL) and tunnelling phenomena however, in a real multipath system they have not been verified yet.Here we show how a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Shaman Bhattacharyya , Somnath Bhattacharyya

In this work we show how constructing Wigner functions of heterogeneous quantum systems leads to new capability in the visualization of quantum states of atoms and molecules. This method allows us to display quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 B. I. Davies , R. P. Rundle , V. M. Dwyer , J. H. Samson , Todd Tilma , M. J. Everitt

The concept of phase space distribution functions and their evolution is used in the case of en enlarged phase space. In particular, we include the intrinsic spin of particles and present a quantum kinetic evolution equation for a scalar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Marklund , J. Zamanian , G. Brodin

In this paper, we correct a mistake we made in [Phys. Rev. Lett. $\textbf{122}$, 190402 (2019)] and [Phys. Rev. A $\textbf{103}$, 012213 (2021)] regarding the Wigner function of the so-called smoothed Weak-Valued state (SWV state). Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Kiarn T. Laverick , Areeya Chantasri , Howard M. Wiseman

Prompted by the longstanding interpretational controversy in quantum mechanics, quantum tunneling is heuristically addressed within the Everettian quantum multiverse. In this framework, the universal wavefunction splits into decohered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 S. E. Ennadifi

We revisit the problem of laser-induced suppression of quantum dynamical tunneling in a model system studied by Kilin et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 (1996) 3297]. This quantum system consists of a ground state symmetric double-well potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Emmanuel Paspalakis

We analyze the dynamics of the molecular field incoherently pumped by the photoassociation of fermionic atoms and coupled by quantum tunnelling in a double-well potential. The relative phase distribution of the molecular modes in each well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Miyakawa , C. P. Search , P. Meystre

We consider three different approaches to analyze the quantum mechanical problems in multi-well potentials: i) the standard matrix diagonalization technique in the basis sets of harmonic oscillator eigenfunctions or plain waves; ii) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 V. P. Berezovoj , Yu. L. Bolotin , V. A. Cherkaskiy , M. I. Konchantnyi

Singularity of the potential function makes quantum tunneling problem mathematically underdetermined. To circumvent the difficulties it introduced in physics, a potential singularity cutoff is often used, followed by a reverse limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 A. Zh. Muradyan