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We study the phenomenon of the "walking droplet", by means of numerical fluid dynamics simulations using the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics numerical method. This phenomenon occurs when a millimetric drop is released on the surface of an…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-17 Diego Molteni , Enrico Vitanza , Onofrio Rosario Battaglia

An extension of the classical action principle obtained in the framework of the gauge transformations, is used to describe the motion of a particle. This extension assigns many, but not all, paths to a particle. Properties of the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. Vatsya

A classical wave-particle entity (WPE) can be realized experimentally as a droplet walking on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath, with the droplet's horizontal walking motion guided by its self-generated wave field.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Joshua Perks , Rahil Valani

When a floating body is internally or externally vibrated, its self-generated wavefield can lead to steady propulsion along the interface. In this article, we review several related and recently discovered systems that leverage this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-09 Daniel M. Harris , Jack-William Barotta

The quantum walk is the quantum analogue of the well-known random walk, which forms the basis for models and applications in many realms of science. Its properties are markedly different from the classical counterpart and might lead to…

We present a deep-learning based tracking objects of interest in walking droplet and granular intruder experiments. In a typical walking droplet experiment, a liquid droplet, known as \textit{walker}, propels itself laterally on the free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Erdi Kara , George Zhang , Joseph J. Williams , Gonzalo Ferrandez-Quinto , Leviticus J. Rhoden , Maximilian Kim , J. Nathan Kutz , Aminur Rahman

We study memory based random walk models to understand diffusive motion in crowded heterogeneous environment. The models considered are non-Markovian as the current move of the random walk models is determined by randomly selecting a move…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-01 Sabeeha Hasnain , Upendra Harbola , Pradipta Bandyopadhyay

We study an active random walker model in which a particle's motion is determined by a self-generated field. The field encodes information about the particle's path history. This leads to either self-attractive or self-repelling behavior.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Grima

A classical particle in a harmonic potential gives rise to a continuous energy spectra, whereas the corresponding quantum particle exhibits countably infinite quantized energy levels. In recent years, classical non-Markovian wave-particle…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-16 Álvaro G. López , Rahil N. Valani

The time evolution equation of motion and shape are derived for a self-propelled droplet driven by a chemical reaction. The coupling between the chemical reaction and motion makes an inhomogeneous concentration distribution as well as a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-01-24 Natsuhiko Yoshinaga

In this paper, we investigate mechanical motion of ultra-slow single atoms considering each atom is coherently coupled to a traveling-wave light. The main noise in this system is originated from Doppler broadening due to the continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Wenxi Lai

We present a wave-memory driven system that exhibits intermittent switching between two propulsion modes in free space. The model is based on a point-like particle emitting periodically cylindrical standing waves. Submitted to a force…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-11 Maxime Hubert , Stéphane Perrard , Matthieu Labousse , Nicolas Vandewalle , Yves Couder

We show that a quantum walk process can be used to construct and secure quantum memory. More precisely, we show that a localized quantum walk with temporal disorder can be engineered to store the information of a single, unknown qubit on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 C. M. Chandrashekar , Th. Busch

We study the unidirectional transport of two-particle quantum wavepackets in a regular one-dimensional lattice. We show that the bound-pair state component behaves differently from unbound states when subjected to an external pulsed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 A. R. C. Buarque , W. S. Dias

We study directed transport of charge and intrinsic angular momentum by periodically driven scattering in the regime of fast and strong driving. A spin-orbit coupling through a kicked magnetic field confined to a compact region in space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 T. Dittrich , F. L. Dubeibe

The effect of curvature and how it induces and enhances the transport of colloidal particles driven through narrow channels represent an unexplored research avenue. Here we combine experiments and simulations to investigate the dynamics of…

We study evolution of a quantum particle in a harmonic potential whose position and momentum are repeatedly monitored. A back-action of measuring devices is accounted for. Our model utilizes a generalized measurement corresponding to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Filip Gampel , Mariusz Gajda

Irreversible transport in time-periodic flows is commonly attributed to vorticity, nonlinear forcing, or symmetry breaking. We show that finite-memory reconstruction of the velocity gradient generates a purely geometric mechanism for…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-13 Mounir Kassmi

We study the motion of an inertial microswimmer in a non-Newtonian environment with a finite memory and present the theoretical realization of an unexpected transition from its random self-propulsion to rotational (circular or elliptical)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-01 F Adersh , M Muhsin , M Sahoo

We consider a liquid droplet which is propelled solely by internal flow. In a simple model, this flow is generated by an autonomous actuator, which moves on a prescribed trajectory inside the droplet. In a biological system, the device…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-24 Leon Rueckert , Annette Zippelius , Reiner Kree