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Active particles are non-equilibrium entities that uptake energy and convert it into self-propulsion. A dynamically rich class of inertial active particles having features of wave-particle coupling and wave memory are walking/superwalking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-03 Rahil N. Valani , David M. Paganin

Wave-like spatial statistics in walking-droplet quantum analogs are typically attributed to spatial or temporal nonlocal wave effects. We show instead that such behavior arises generically from the low-dimensional nonlinear dynamics of an…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-10 Rahil N. Valani

A particle subject to successive, random displacements is said to execute a random walk (in position or some other coordinate). The mathematical properties of random walks have been very thoroughly investigated, and the model is used in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Wilkinson , B. Mehlig

A drop bouncing on a vertically-vibrated surface may self-propel forward by standing waves and travels along a fluid interface. This system called walking drop forms a non-quantum wave-particle association at the macroscopic scale. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-05-25 Adrien Hélias , Matthieu Labousse

The "quantum walk" has emerged recently as a paradigmatic process for the dynamic simulation of complex quantum systems, entanglement production and quantum computation. Hitherto, photonic implementations of quantum walks have mainly been…

Pumps are transport mechanisms in which direct currents result from a cyclic evolution of the potential. As Thouless has shown, the pumping process can have topological origins, when considering the motion of quantum particles in spatially…

The spontaneous (so-called Quincke) rotation of an uncharged, solid, dielectric, spherical particle under a steady electric field is analyzed, accounting for the inertia of the particle and the transient fluid inertia, or ``hydrodynamic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-15 Jason K. Kabarowski , Aditya S. Khair , Rahil N. Valani

A bouncing droplet on a vibrated bath can couple to the waves it generates, so that it becomes a propagative walker. Its propulsion at constant velocity means that a balance exists between the permanent input of energy provided by the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Matthieu Labousse , Stéphane Perrard

We identify an acoustic process in which the conversion of angular momentum between its spin and orbital form takes place. The interaction between an evanescent wave propagating at the interface of two immiscible fluids and an isolated…

Discrete dynamical models of walking droplets ("walkers") have allowed swift numerical experiments revealing heretofore unobserved quantum statistics and related behaviors in a classical hydrodynamic system. We present evidence that one…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-06 George Zhang , Ivan C. Christov , Aminur Rahman

Bouncing walking droplets possess fascinating properties due to their peculiar wave/particule interaction. In order to study such walkers in a 1d system, we considered the case of one or more droplets in an annular cavity. We show that, in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-04 B. Filoux , M. Hubert , N. Vandewalle

The memory effect in disordered systems is a key physical phenomenon that has been employed for optical imaging, metrology, and communication through opaque media. Under the conventional memory effect, when the incident beam is tilted…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-21 Hasan Yılmaz , Matthias Kühmayer , Chia Wei Hsu , Stefan Rotter , Hui Cao

A \textit{walker} is a droplet of liquid that self-propels on the free surface of an oscillating bath of the same liquid through feedback between the droplet and its wave field. We have studied walking droplets in the presence of two…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-24 Rahil N. Valani , Anja C. Slim , Tapio Simula

We study the quantum-classical correspondence in terms of coherent wave functions of a charged particle in two-dimensional central-scalar-potentials as well as the gauge field of a magnetic flux in the sense that the probability clouds of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Jun-Li Xin , J. -Q. Liang

Quantum walk is a synonym for multi-path interference and faster spread of a particle in a superposition of position space. We study the effects of a quantum mechanical interaction modeled to mimic quantum mechanical gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Himanshu Badhani , C. M. Chandrashekar

A droplet bouncing on the surface of a vibrating liquid bath can move horizontally guided by the wave it produces on impacting the bath. The wave itself is modified by the environment, and thus the interactions of the moving droplet with…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-07-19 Rahil N. Valani , Anja C. Slim

The de Broglie - Bohm "pilot-wave" theory replaces the paradoxical wave-particle duality of ordinary quantum theory with a more mundane and literal kind of duality: each individual photon or electron comprises a quantum wave (evolving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Travis Norsen

Active wave-particle entities (WPEs) emerge as self-propelled oil droplets on the free surface of a vibrating oil bath. The particle (droplet) periodically imprints decaying waves on the liquid surface which in turn guide the particle…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-12-24 Runze Xu , Rahil N. Valani

We examine the emergence of dynamical memory effects in quantum processes having indefinite time direction and causal order. In particular, we focus on the class of phase-covariant qubit channels, which encompasses some of the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-23 Göktuğ Karpat , Barış Çakmak

Quantum walks exhibit many unique characteristics compared to classical random walks. In the classical setting, self-avoiding random walks have been studied as a variation on the usual classical random walk. Classical self-avoiding random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Elizabeth Camilleri , Peter P. Rohde , Jason Twamley