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A comprehensive physical model of adiabatic three wave mixing is developed for the fully nonlinear regime, i.e. without making the undepleted pump approximation. The conditions for adiabatic evolution are rigorously derived, together with…

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The electronic wavefunction is at the heart of physical phenomena, defining the frontiers of quantum materials research. While the amplitude of the electron wavefunction in crystals can be measured with state-of-the-art probes in…

Letting $T$ denote an ergodic transformation of the unit interval and letting $f \colon [0,1)\to \mathbb{R}$ denote an observable, we construct the $f$-weighted return time measure $\mu_y$ for a reference point $y\in[0,1)$ as the weighted…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Marc Kesseböhmer , Arne Mosbach , Tony Samuel , Malte Steffens

Out-of-equilibrium electron-gas systems exhibit rich physics, which we explore through three problems. First, we study photoemission from metals, traditionally analyzed in the frequency domain. Unexpectedly, the photoemission rate…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-19 Gustavo Diniz

Quantum simulations with ultracold atoms typically create atomic wavefunctions with structures at optical length scales, where direct imaging suffers from the diffraction limit. In analogy to advances in optical microscopy for biological…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-10 Sarthak Subhankar , Yang Wang , Tsz-Chun Tsui , Steven L. Rolston , James V. Porto

Deviations from the perfect atomic arrangements in crystals play an important role in affecting their properties. Similarly, diffusion of such deviations is behind many microstructural changes in solids. However, observation of point defect…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-28 Jani Kotakoski , Clemens Mangler , Jannik C. Meyer

We investigate electron transport in one dimension from the quantum-acoustic perspective, where the coherent-state representation of lattice vibrations results in a time-dependent deformation potential whose rate is set by the sound speed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Tiange Xiang , Yubo Zhang , Joonas Keski-Rahkonen , Anton M. Graf , Eric J. Heller

In this article we formulate and solve the problem of molecular beam diffraction when each molecule consists of two interacting bodies. Then, using our results, we present the diffraction patterns for various molecular sizes employing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 D. Condado , J. I. Castro-Alatorre , E. Sadurní

The paper develops a new integral micromorphic elastic continuum model, which can describe dispersion properties of band-gap metamaterials, i.e., metamaterials that inhibit propagation of waves in a certain frequency range. The enrichment…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Michal Šmejkal , Milan Jirásek , Martin Horák

Run-and-tumble particles, frequently considered today for modeling bacterial locomotion, naturally appear outside a biological context as well, e.g. for producing waves in the telegraph process. Here, we use a wave function to drive their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-17 Christian Maes , Kasper Meerts , Ward Struyve

We develop a theory for the trajectory of an x ray in the presence of a crystal deformation. A set of equations of motion for an x-ray wave packet including the dynamical diffraction is derived, taking into account the Berry phase as a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Kei Sawada , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

We investigate the nonlinear Bloch dynamics and Landau-Zener tunneling of quantum droplets in optical lattices, where the interplay between mean-field repulsion and beyond-mean-field attraction from Lee-Huang-Yang corrections introduces a…

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We describe linear and nonlinear modes in a ring-shaped waveguide with localized gain and dissipation modeled by two Dirac $\delta$ functions located symmetrically. The strengths of the gain and dissipation are equal, i.e., the system obeys…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-10-31 Dmitry A. Zezyulin , Vladimir V. Konotop

We demonstrate the stabilization of two-dimensional nonlinear wave patterns by means of a dissipative confinement potential. Our analytical and numerical analysis, based on the generalized dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equation, makes use of…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-22 V. L. Kalashnikov , S. Wabnitz

Atomistic computer simulations are applied to investigate the atomic structure, thermal stability, and diffusion processes in Al-Si interphase boundaries as a prototype of metal-ceramic interfaces in composite materials. Some of the most…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-24 Ian Chesser , Raj Koju , Akshay Vellore , Yuri Mishin

In this chapter we review the field of radio-frequency dressed atom trapping. We emphasise the role of adiabatic potentials and give simple, but generic models of electromagnetic fields that currently produce traps for atoms at microkelvin…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 Hélène Perrin , Barry M. Garraway

When a plane electromagnetic wave impinges upon a diffraction grating or other periodic structures, reflected and transmitted waves propagate away from the structure in different radiation channels. A diffraction anomaly occurs when the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Zitao Mai , Ya Yan Lu

We study the interactions between two atomic species in a binary Bose-Einstein condensate to revisit the conditions for miscibility, oscillatory dynamics between the species, steady state solutions and their stability. By employing a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-09 R. Navarro , R. Carretero-Gonzalez , P. G. Kevrekidis

Circular atomtronics is known to exhibit a uniform ground state, unlike elliptical atomtronics. In elliptical atomtronics, the matter wave tends to accumulate along the semimajor edges during its time dynamics, which we depict by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Sriganapathy Raghav , Suranjana Ghosh , Jayanta Bera , Utpal Roy

In this article, we introduce a universal simulator covering all regimes of matter wave light-pulse elastic scattering. Applied to atom interferometry as a study case, this simulator solves the atom-light diffraction problem in the elastic…