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Conduction electrons in metallic nano-objects ($\rm 1\,nm = 10^{-9}\, m$) behave as mobile negative charges confined by a fixed positively-charged background, the atomic ions. In many respects, this electron gas displays typical plasma…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-20 Giovanni Manfredi , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Jérôme Hurst

The semiclassical dynamics of a charged particle moving in a two-component plasma is considered using a corrected Kelbg pseudopotential. We employ the classical Nevanlinna-type theory of frequency moments to determine the velocity and force…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Ortner , I. Valuev , W. Ebeling

The purpose of the dynamics of moving systems is to search for the mathematical model that describes the link between the resultant applied force, that is the cause, and the speed of system that is the effect. This mathematical link…

General Physics · Physics 2010-01-15 Daniele Sasso

Coupling the vibrations of an oscillator to electronic transport is a key building block for nanoelectromechanical systems. They describe many nanoscale electrical components such as molecular junctions. Inspired by recent experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Sofia Sevitz , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

This paper is written as a brief introduction for beginning graduate students. The picture of electron waves moving in a cristalline potential and interacting weakly with each other and with cristalline vibrations suffices to explain the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 A. -M. S. Tremblay , C. Bourbonnais , D. Senechal

Classical molecular dynamics simulations have recently become a standard tool for the study of electrochemical systems. State-of-the-art approaches represent the electrodes as perfect conductors, modelling their responses to the charge…

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng , Zu-Quan Zhang , Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu

We present a dynamical framework for modeling the motion of point-like charged particles, with or without mass, in general external electromagnetic fields. A key feature of this formulation is the treatment of time coordinate as a dynamical…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Zui Oporto , Gonzalo Marcelo Ramírez-Ávila

The ultrafast dynamics of charge carriers in solids plays a pivotal role in emerging optoelectronics, photonics, energy harvesting, and quantum technology applications. However, the investigation and direct visualization of such…

The one-dimensional flight of a fast electron flux in plasma is investigated taking into account generation and absorption of plasma waves. The transition from the kinetic description to the gas dynamics is made. The closed set of gas…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 V. N. Mel'Nik

Electrophoresis is the motion of particles relative to a surrounding fluid driven by a uniform electric field. In conventional electrophoresis, the electrophoretic velocity grows linearly with the applied field. Nonlinear effects with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-19 Mojtaba Rajabi , Taras Turiv , Bing-Xiang Li , Hend Baza , Dmitry Golovaty , Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Charge transport in amorphous semiconductors having spatially correlated exponential density of states (DOS) has been considered for the arbitrary behavior of the correlation function of random energies. Average carrier velocity is exactly…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-05 S. V. Novikov

In the recent years there was published some papers in which the photons are represented as electromagnetic solitons [1,2,3]. All particles - solitons - represent some electromagnetic field restricted in a very small volume, length,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pavel S. Kamenov

A novel way to create a band structure of the quasienergy spectrum for driven systems is proposed based on the discrete symmetry in phase space. The system, e.g., an ion or ultracold atom trapped in a potential, shows no spatial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-08 Lingzhen Guo , Michael Marthaler , Gerd Schön

We consider the lattice dynamics in the half-space. The initial data are random according to a probability measure which enforces slow spatial variation on the linear scale $\varepsilon^{-1}$. We establish two time regimes. For times of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. V. Dudnikova

We consider a one-dimensional gas of hard rods, one of the simplest examples of an interacting integrable model. It is well known that the hydrodynamics of such integrable models can be understood by viewing the system as a gas of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-23 Seema Chahal , Indranil Mukherjee , Abhishek Dhar , Herbert Spohn , Anupam Kundu

The balance of pseudomomentum is discussed and applied to simple elasticity, ideal fluids, and the mechanics of inextensible rods and sheets. A general framework is presented in which the simultaneous variation of an action with respect to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-08-12 H. Singh , J. A. Hanna

We consider a basic model of the lossless interaction between a moving two-level atom and a standing-wave single-mode laser field. Classical treatment of the translational atomic motion provides the semiclassical Hamilton-Schrodinger…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 S. V. Prants

We present an effective theory for describing electron dynamics driven by an optical external field in a Schr\"{o}dinger's cat state. We show that the electron density matrix evolves as an average over trajectories $\{\rho_\alpha\}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Shohei Imai , Atsushi Ono , Naoto Tsuji

The accuracy of the noninteracting electron approximation is examined for a model of vibrationally coupled electron transport in single molecule junction. In the absence of electronic-vibrational coupling, steady state transport in this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Haobin Wang , Michael Thoss