Related papers: The imaginary Kapitza pendulum
This paper aims to investigate the pseudo-modes of the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger operator with complex potentials, focusing on the behavior of the resolvent norm along specific curves in the complex plane and assessing the stability of…
The quantum mechanical equivalent of parametric resonance is studied. A simple model of a periodically kicked harmonic oscillator is introduced which can be solved exactly. Classically stable and unstable regions in parameter space are…
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…
Dynamical stabilization of an inverted pendulum through vertical movement of the pivot is a well-known counterintuitive phenomenon in classical mechanics. This system is also known as Kapitza pendulum and the stability can be explained with…
In this work we present a semi-classical approach to solve the inverse spectrum problem for one-dimensional wave equations for a specific class of potentials that admits quasi-stationary states. We show how inverse methods for potential…
We consider a non relativistic charged particle in a 1-dimensional infinite square potential well. This quantum system is subjected to a control, which is a uniform (in space) time depending electric field. It is represented by a complex…
We examine the recently proposed imaginary-time formulation for strongly correlated steady-state nonequilibrium for its range of validity and discuss significant improvements in the analytic continuation of the Matsubara voltage as well as…
The phenomenon of Parametric Resonance (PR) is very well studied in classical systems with one of the textbook examples being the stabilization of a Kapitza's pendulum in the inverted configuration when the suspension point is oscillated…
In this paper we study the global dynamics of the inverted spherical pendulum with a vertically vibrating suspension point in the presence of an external horizontal periodic force field. We do not assume that this force field is weak or…
The one-loop effective potential calculated for a generic model that originates from 5-dimensional theory reduced down to 4 dimensions is considered. The cut-off and dimensional regularization schemes are discussed and compared. It is…
This paper studies the feedback stabilization of abstract Cauchy problems with unbounded output operators by finite-dimensional controllers. Both necessary conditions and sufficient conditions for feedback stabilizability are presented. The…
The idealized theory of quantum vacuum energy density is a beautiful application of the spectral theory of differential operators with boundary conditions, but its conclusions are physically unacceptable. A more plausible model of a…
We consider a quantum mechanical system to model the effect of quantum fields on the evolution of the early universe. The system consists of an inverted oscillator bilinearly coupled to a set of harmonic oscillators. We point out that the…
The model of a two-electron quantum dot, confined to move in a two dimensional flat space, in the presence of an external harmonic oscillator potential, is revisited for a specific purpose. Indeed, eigenvalues and eigenstates of the bound…
With his formal analysis in 1951, the physicist Pyotr Kapitza demonstrated that an inverted pendulum with an externally vibrating base can be stable in its upper position, thus overcoming the force of gravity. Kapitza's work is an example…
We present a pedagogical introduction to Floquet-Magnus theory through the classical example of Kapitza's pendulum - a simple system exhibiting nontrivial dynamical stabilization under rapid periodic driving. By deriving the equations of…
We consider an inverse scattering problem and its near-field approximation at high frequencies. We first prove, for both problems, Lipschitz stability results for determining the low-frequency component of the potential. Then we show that,…
We investigate the resonance spectrum of the H\'enon-Heiles potential up to twice the barrier energy. The quantum spectrum is obtained by the method of complex coordinate rotation. We use periodic orbit theory to approximate the oscillating…
A two-dimensional model of an electron moving under the influence of an attractive zero-range potential as well as external magnetic and electric fields is analyzed. We prove by numerical investigations that there are formed such resonances…
We show that and how the Coulomb potential can be regularized and solved exactly at the imaginary couplings. The new spectrum of energies is real and bounded as expected, but its explicit form proves totally different from the usual…