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Low-energy alternatives to General Relativity (GR) generically modify the phase of gravitational waves (GWs) during their propagation. As detector sensitivities increase, it becomes key to understand how these modifications affect the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Jose Maria Ezquiaga , Wayne Hu , Macarena Lagos , Meng-Xiang Lin , Fei Xu

In this paper we numerically solve the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for scenarios using wave packets. These examples include the free wave packet, which we use to show the difference between group and phase velocities, the packet…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-07-08 Francisco Guzman-Cajica , Francisco S. Guzman

The quantum evolution of the Wigner function for Gaussian wave packets generated by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is investigated. In the semiclassical limit $\hbar\to 0$ this yields the non-Hermitian analog of the Ehrenfest theorem for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-04 Eva-Maria Graefe , Roman Schubert

The complex geometry underlying the Schr\"odinger dynamics of coherent states for non-Hermitian Hamiltonians is investigated. In particular two seemingly contradictory approaches are compared: (i) a complex WKB formalism, for which the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-12 Eva-Maria Graefe , Roman Schubert

Unbound wave packets propagating to macroscopic space and time coordinates become proportional to their (Fourier transform) momentum distribution at earlier times whereby the asymptotic coordinates and the initial momenta are connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 James M. Feagin , John S. Briggs

Transport properties of open chaotic ballistic systems and their statistics can be expressed in terms of the scattering matrix connecting incoming and outgoing wavefunctions. Here we calculate the dependence of correlation functions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Daniel Waltner , Jack Kuipers , Klaus Richter

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

A general problem of $2\rightarrow N_f$ scattering is addressed with all the states being wave packets with arbitrary phases. Depending on these phases, one deals with coherent states in $(3+1)$ D, vortex particles with orbital angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-13 Dmitry Karlovets

We study propagation of high-frequency wave packets along a large-scale background wave which evolves according to dispersionless hydrodynamic equations for two variables (fluid density and flow velocity). Influence of the wave packet on…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-06-08 D. V. Shaykin , A. M. Kamchatnov

We consider propagation of high-frequency wave packets along a smooth evolving background flow whose evolution is described by a simple-wave type of solutions of hydrodynamic equations. In geometrical optics approximation, the motion of the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2021-06-16 A. M. Kamchatnov , D. V. Shaykin

We consider a continuous-time Ehrenfest model defined over the integers from -N to N, and subject to catastrophes occurring at constant rate. The effect of each catastrophe instantaneously resets the process to state 0. We investigate both…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-23 Selvamuthu Dharmaraja , Antonio Di Crescenzo , Virginia Giorno , Amelia G. Nobile

Space-time wave packets are propagation-invariant pulsed beams that travel in free space without diffraction or dispersion by virtue of tight correlations introduced into their spatio-temporal spectrum. Such correlations constitute an…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-31 H. Esat Kondakci , Miguel A. Alonso , Ayman F. Abouraddy

We consider a charged particle which is driven by a time-dependent flux threading a circular ring system. Various approaches including classical treatment, Fourier expansion method, time-evolution method, and Lewis-Riesenfeld method are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pi-Gang Luan , Chi-Shung Tang

We study non-relativistic propagation of Gaussian wave packets in one-dimensional Eckart potential, a barrier, or a well. In the picture used, the transmitted wave packet results from interference between the copies of the freely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 X. Gutiérrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski

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

We study quantum diffusion of wavepackets in one-dimensional random binary subject to an applied electric field. We consider three different cases: Periodic, random, and random dimer (paired) lattices. We analyze the spatial extent of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Dominguez-Adame , A Sanchez , E Diez

Space-time wave packets can propagate invariantly in free space with arbitrary group velocity thanks to the spatio-temporal correlation. Here it is proved that the space-time wave packets are stable in dispersive media as well and free from…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Hao He , Cheng Guo , Meng Xiao

It is well known that the entanglement of a quantum state is invariant under local unitary transformations. It dictates, for example, that the degree of entanglement of a photon pair in a Bell state remains maximally entangled during…

Generalized impedance boundary conditions are effective, approximate boundary conditions that describe scattering of waves in situations where the wave interaction with the material involves multiple scales. In particular, this includes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Lehel Banjai , Christian Lubich , Joerg Nick

The propagator which evolves the wave-function in NRQM, can be expressed as a matrix element of a time evolution operator: i.e $ G_{\rm NR}(x)= \langle{\mathbf{x}_2}|{U_{\rm NR}(t)}|{\mathbf{x}_1}\rangle$ in terms of the orthonormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 T. Padmanabhan