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In this paper, we study within the structure of Symplectic Quantum Mechanics a bi-dimensional non-relativistic strong interaction system which represent the bound state of heavy quark-antiquark, where we consider a Cornell potential which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-04 R. R. Luz , Caroline S. R. Costa , G. X. A. Petronilo , A. E. Santana , R. G. G. Amorim , R. A. S. Paiva

We study particle interaction with a Dirac step potential. In the standard Klein energy zone, the hypothesis of Klein pair production predicts the existence of free/oscillatory antiparticles. In this paper, we discuss the tunneling energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-07 Stefano De Leo , Pietro Rotelli

We show that the behaviour in phase space of the Wigner function associated to the electromagnetic modes carries the information of both, the entanglement properties between matter and field, and the regions in parameter space where quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 E. Nahmad-Achar , R. López-Peña , S. Cordero , O. Castaños

We investigate the scattering of two distinguishable particles with unequal masses and a mutual short-range interaction with the aim of quantifying the impact of a tunneling ``projectile'' particle on the quantum mechanical state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Roman Michelko , Peter Bokes

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

We demonstrate that the Wigner function of a pure quantum state is a wave function in a specially tuned Dirac bra-ket formalism and argue that the Wigner function is in fact a probability amplitude for the quantum particle to be at a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 Denys I. Bondar , Renan Cabrera , Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Herschel A. Rabitz

Quantum tunneling from a thin wire or a thin film through a static potential barrier in a zero magnetic field is studied. The wire or the film should satisfy a condition of transverse quantization of levels and be inhomogeneous. Depending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-06-11 B. Ivlev

The formalism of classical and quantum mechanics on phase space leads to symplectic and Heisenberg group representations, respectively. The Wigner functions give a representation of the quantum system using classical variables. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

The mixed density operator for coarsegrained eigenlevels of a static Hamiltonian is represented in phase space by the spectral Wigner function, which has its peak on the corresponding classical energy shell. The action of trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida

New exact and asymptotic results for a quantum inverted oscillator, driven by the variable external force, are presented. To illustrate the advantages of our approach, we applied the obtained propagator to the descriptions of evolution the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 P. A. Golovinski

The tunneling wave function of the universe is calculated exactly for a de Sitter minisuperspace model with a massless conformally coupled scalar field, both by solving the Wheeler-DeWitt equation and by evaluating the Lorentzian path…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Alexander Vilenkin , Masaki Yamada

We calculate the tunneling process of a Dirac particle across two square barriers separated a distance $d$, as well as the scattering by a double cusp barrier where the centers of the cusps are separated a distance larger than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor M. Villalba , Luis Gonzalez-Arraga

A quantum phase space with Wannier basis is constructed: (i) classical phase space is divided into Planck cells; (ii) a complete set of Wannier functions are constructed with the combination of Kohn's method and L\"owdin method such that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-02 Yuan Fang , Fan Wu , Biao Wu

Diffraction in time of matter waves incident on a shutter which is removed at time $t=0$ is studied in the presence of a linear potential. The solution is also discussed in phase space in terms of the Wigner function. An alternative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. del Campo , J. G. Muga

In this work we study the Wigner functions, which are the quantum analogues of the classical phase space density, and show how a full rigorous semiclassical scheme for all orders of \hbar can be constructed for them without referring to the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gregor Veble , Marko Robnik , Valery Romanovski

Quantum tunneling through a two-dimensional static barrier becomes unusual when a momentum of an electron has a tangent component with respect to a border of the prebarrier region. If the barrier is not homogeneous in the direction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-03 B. Ivlev

The integral of the Wigner function over a subregion of the phase-space of a quantum system may be less than zero or greater than one. It is shown that for systems with one degree of freedom, the problem of determining the best possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. J. Bracken , H. -D. Doebner , J. G. Wood

We show how sub-Planck phase-space structures in the Wigner function can be used to achieve Heisenberg-limited sensitivity in weak force measurements. Nonclassical states of harmonic oscillators, consisting of superpositions of coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Toscano , D. A. R. Dalvit , L. Davidovich , W. H. Zurek

The quantum dissipative dynamics of a tunneling process through double barrier structures is investigated on the basis of a rigorous treatment for the first time. We employ a Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian with an effective potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 Atsunori Sakurai , Yoshitaka Tanimura

The motivation of this work is to get an additional insight into the irreversible energy dissipation on the quantum level. The presented examination procedure is based on the Feynman path integral method that is applied and widened towards…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-09 B. G. Márkus , F. Márkus