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Relativistic flying mirrors in plasmas are realized as thin dense electron (or electron-ion) layers accelerated by high-intensity electromagnetic waves to velocities close to the speed of light in vacuum. The reflection of an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Sergei V. Bulanov , Timur Zh. Esirkepov , Masaki Kando , James K. Koga

We consider classical dynamics of a 1D system of $N$ particles bouncing on an oscillating mirror in the presence of gravitational field. The particles behave like hard balls and they are resonantly driven by the mirror. We identify the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-08 Weronika Golletz , Andrzej Czarnecki , Krzysztof Sacha , Arkadiusz Kuros

We study the quantum dynamics of a material wavepacket bouncing off a modulated atomic mirror in the presence of a gravitational field. We find the occurrence of coherent accelerated dynamics for atoms. The acceleration takes place for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Farhan Saif , Pierre Meystre

We study the scattering of solitons in the nonlinear Schroedinger equation on local inhomogeneities which may give rise to resonant transmission and reflection. In both cases, we derive resonance conditions for the soliton's velocity. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Miroshnichenko , S. Flach , B. Malomed

Bending of solitons in two dimensional plane is presented in the presence of weak and slowly varying inhomogeneous ion density for the propagation of ion acoustic soliton in unmagnetized cold plasma with isothermal electrons. Using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Abhik Mukherjee , M. S. Janaki , Anjan Kundu

The bright matter wave soliton propagation through a barrier with a rapidly oscillating position is investigated. The averaged over rapid oscillations Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation is derived. It is shown that the soliton is dynamically…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Josselin Garnier

We analyze the existence and stability of bright, dark, and gap matter-wave solitons in optical superlattices. Then, using these properties, we show that (time-dependent) ``dynamical superlattices'' can be used to controllably place, guide,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-16 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis , R. Carretero-González , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying scattering length. It is demonstrated that, even in the absence of any external trapping potential, a soliton can be confined due to the inhomogeneous…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Theocharis , P. Schmelcher , P. G. Kevrekidis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

We investigate bright and dark solitons with anomalous or normal dispersion and under transverse harmonic confinement. In matter waves, positive atomic mass implies anomalous dispersion (kinetic spreading) while negative mass gives normal…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Salasnich , A. Parola , L. Reatto

We investigate bright matter-wave solitons in the presence of a spatially varying nonlinearity. It is demonstrated that a translation mode is excited due to the spatial inhomogeneity and its frequency is derived analytically and also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Niarchou , G. Theocharis , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher , D. J. Frantzeskakis

The influence of motion of ions and electron temperature on nonlinear one-dimensional plasma waves with velocity close to the speed of light in vacuum is investigated. It is shown that although the wavebreaking field weakly depends on mass…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Arsen G. Khachatryan

We investigate the dynamics of a soliton that behaves as an extended particle. The soliton motion in an effective bistable potential can be chaotic in a similar way as the Duffing oscillator. We generalize the concept of geometrical…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Gonzalez , B. A. Mello , L. I. Reyes , L. E. Guerrero

We consider the dynamics of internal envelope solitons in a two-layer rotating fluid with a linearly varying bottom. It is shown that the most probable frequency of a carrier wave which constitutes the solitary wave is the frequency where…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-03-25 Yury Stepanyants

Gravitational wave observations have significantly broadened our capacity to explore fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, providing crucial insights into dark matter that are inaccessible through conventional methods. Here, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-21 Jeong Han Kim , Xing-Yu Yang

We propose a method for observation of the quasi-stationary states of neutrons, localized near the curved mirror surface. The bounding effective well is formed by the centrifugal potential and the mirror Fermi-potential. This phenomenon is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. V. Nesvizhevsky , A. K. Petukhov , K. V. Protasov , A. Yu. Voronin

We study the quantum dynamics of a material wavepacket bouncing off a modulated atomic mirror in the presence of a gravitational field. We find the occurrence of coherent accelerated dynamics for atoms beyond the familiar regime of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Farhan Saif , Pierre Meystre

We consider a slow particle with wave function $\psi_t(\vec{x})$, moving freely in some direction. A mirror is briefly switched on around a time $T$ and its position is scanned. It is shown that the measured reflection probability then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 Volker Hannstein , Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt

Torsional Alfven waves are likely excited with bursts in rotating magnetars. These waves are probably propagated through corotating atmospheres toward a vacuum exterior. We have studied the physical effects of the azimuthal wave number and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Taishi Okita , Yasufumi Kojima

We consider the propagation of solitons in media with an imprinted transverse periodic or parabolic refractive index modulation when the modulation depth slightly fluctuates along the propagation direction. We find that, under suitable…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Victor A. Vysloukh , Lluis Torner

We show that dispersive gravitational waves, as a background spacetime, can reflect electromagnetic waves in a plasma. This reflection upshifts the frequency of the reflected wave, being larger for low-frequency incident waves. This effect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 Felipe A. Asenjo , Swadesh M. Mahajan