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We demonstrate the generation of self-accelerating surface plasmon beams along arbitrary caustic curvatures. These plasmonic beams are excited by free-space beams through a two-dimensional binary plasmonic phase mask, which provides the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Itai Epstein , Ady Arie

In this paper, we present a theoretical and numerical analysis of the free expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate, where we assume that the single particle energy spectrum is deformed due to a possible quantum structure of spacetime. Also,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Elías Castellanos , Celia Escamilla-Rivera

The solution of the Schrodinger equation with a linear potential is considered. We use algebraic methods to obtain the explicit form of the solution for the explicitly time dependent Hamiltonian and discuss the general conditions which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-10-11 G. Dattoli , K. Zhukovsky

It is proved that accelerating nondiffracting gravitational Airy wave--packets are solutions of linearized gravity. It is also showed that Airy functions are exact solutions to Einstein equations for non--accelerating nondiffracting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-24 Felipe A. Asenjo , Sergio A. Hojman

Optical beams with certain asymmetric profiles, such as the Airy beam, can depart from rectilinear propagation and instead travel along curved (typically parabolic) trajectories. Here we show that sculpting the spatiotemporal spectrum of…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Layton A. Hall , Ayman F. Abouraddy

We study superradiant scattering off Bose-Einstein condensates by solving the semiclassical Maxwell-Schroedinger equations describing the coupled dynamics of matter-wave and optical fields. Taking the spatial dependence of these fields…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Zobay , Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Considering a Bose-Einstein condensed gas confined in one dimension with periodic boundary conditions, we demonstrate that, very generally, solitary-wave and rotational excitations coincide. This exact equivalence allows us to establish…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-20 A. D. Jackson , J. Smyrnakis , M. Magiropoulos , G. M. Kavoulakis

We investigate theoretically the four-wave mixing of optical and matter waves resulting from the scattering of a short light pulse off an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, as recently demonstrated by D. Schneble {\em et al.} [ Science {\bf…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Han Pu , Weiping Zhang , Pierre Meystre

We investigate the localized nonlinear matter waves of the quasi-two dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates with spatially modulated nonlinearity in harmonic potential. It is shown that the whole Bose-Einstein condensates, similar to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Deng-Shan Wang , Xing-Hua Hu , Jiangping Hu , W. M. Liu

Localized scattering phenomena may result in the formation of stationary matter waves originating from a compact region in physical space. Mathematically, such waves are advantageously expressed in terms of quantum sources that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tobias Kramer , Christian Bracher , Manfred Kleber

In this article we have developed a formalism to obtain the Schr$\ddot{\rm{o}}$dinger equation for a particle in a frame undergoing an uniform acceleration in an otherwise flat Minkowski space-time geometry. We have presented an exact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Sanchari De , Somenath Chakrabarty

We demonstrate that incoherent photon scattering by a Bose-Einstein condensate of non-ideal atomic gas is enhanced due to bosonic stimulation of spontaneous emission, similarly to coherent scattering in forward direction. Necessary initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. E. Mazets

It is known that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation describes the self-modulation of a large amplitude circularly polarized wave in relativistic electron-positron plasmas in the weakly and strongly magnetized limits. Here, we show that such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Felipe A. Asenjo

We present a detailed theoretical analysis of superradiant Rayleigh scattering from atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. A thorough investigation of the spatially resolved time-evolution of optical and matter-wave fields is performed in the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Zobay , Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Acceleration of the universe is obtained from a model of non-relativistic particles with a short-range attractive interaction, at low enough temperature to produce a Bose-Einstein condensate. Conditions are derived for negative-pressure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 German Izquierdo , Jaime Besprosvany

We investigate the quantum tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a optical trap. We show that periodic pulses of coherent matter are emitted from the trap by using an oscillating energy barrier. Moreover, the emitted fraction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Salasnich

The interaction between atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and light field in an optical ring cavity gives rise to many interesting phenomena such as supersolid and movable self-trapped matter wave packets. Here we examined the collision…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-05 Jieli Qin , Lu Zhou

A simple model wavefunction, consisting of a linear combination of two free-particle Gaussians, describes many of the observed features seen in the interactions of two isolated Bose-Einstein condensates as they expand, overlap, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 R. W. Robinett

X-waves are an example of a localized wave packet solution of the homogeneous wave equation, and can potentially arise in any area of physics relating to wave phenomena, such as acoustics, electromagnetism, or quantum mechanics. They have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 David Colas , Fabrice P. Laussy , Matthew J. Davis

In this paper we discuss a solution of the free particle Schrodinger equation in which the time and space dependence are not separable. The wavefunction is written as a product of exponential terms, Hermite polynomials and a phase. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Paul Strange