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In the present paper we consider the semiclassical magnetic Schr\"odinger equation, which describes the dynamics of charged particles under the influence of a electro-magnetic field. The solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Malik Scheifinger , Kurt Busch , Marlis Hochbruck , Caroline Lasser

Time-dependent quantum mechanics provides an intuitive picture of particle propagation in external fields. Semiclassical methods link the classical trajectories of particles with their quantum mechanical propagation. Many analytical results…

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A theoretical framework is developed for scattering of scalar radiation from stationary, three-dimensional media with correlation functions of scattering potentials obeying $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry. It is illustrated that unlike in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Paulo Brandão , Olga Korotkova

Atomic and molecular breakup reactions, such as multiple-ionisation, are described by a driven Schr\"odinger equation. This equation is equivalent to a high-dimensional Helmholtz equation and it has solutions that are outgoing waves,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Jacob Snoeijer , Wim Vanroose

This work considers numerical methods for the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation of incommensurate systems. By using a plane wave method for spatial discretization, the incommensurate problem is lifted to a higher dimension that…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Ting Wang , Huajie Chen , Aihui Zhou , Yuzhi Zhou

We study a multidimensional inverse scattering problem under the time-dependent repulsive Hamiltonians of quadratic type. The time-dependent coefficient on the repulsive term decays as the inverse square of time, which is the threshold…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Atsuhide Ishida

If a quantum mechanical particle is scattered by a potential well, the wave function of the particle can propagate with negative phase time. Due to the analogy of the Schr\"odinger and the Helmholtz equation this phenomenon is expected to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. -M. Vetter , A. Haibel , G. Nimtz

Solutions in the form of series expansion, as the Born approximation, are very useful for describing time-independent scattering of quantum particles. In this work, it is mathematically demonstred that such solutions, when applied to…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Sérgio L. Morelhão , Luis H. Avanci , Stefan Kycia

The simplest nonlinear Schrodinger equation that contains the time derivative of the probability density is investigated. This equation has the same stationary solutions as its linear counterpart, and these solutions are the eigenstates of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ji Luo

We consider asymmetric (nonreciprocal) wave transmission through a layered nonlinear, non mirror-symmetric system described by the one-dimensional Discrete Nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with spatially varying coefficients embedded in an…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-11-12 Stefano Lepri , Giulio Casati

An alternative quantization rule, in which time becomes a self-adjoint operator and position is a parameter, was proposed by Dias and Parisio [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 95}, 032133 (2017)]. In this approach, the authors derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Ruben E. Araújo , Ricardo Ximenes , Eduardo O. Dias

We study the long time behavior of radial solutions to nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equations on hyperbolic space. We show that the usual distinction between short range and long range nonlinearity is modified: the geometry of the hyperbolic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Valeria Banica , Rémi Carles , Gigliola Staffilani

We consider wave scattering from a system of highly contrasting resonators with time-modulated material parameters. In this setting, the wave equation reduces to a system of coupled Helmholtz equations that models the scattering problem. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

A variationally improved Sturmian approximation for solving time-independent Schr\"odinger equation is developed. This approximation is used to obtain the energy levels of a quartic anharmonic oscillator, a quartic potential, and a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ali Mostafazadeh

The meaning of time asymmetry in quantum physics is discussed. On the basis of a mathematical theorem, the Stone--von Neumann theorem, the solutions of the dynamical equations, the Schr\"odinger equation (1) for states or the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Arno R. Bohm , Manuel Gadella , Piotr Kielanowski

We consider the following wave guide nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, \begin{equation} (i\partial \_t+\partial \_{xx}-\vert D\_y\vert )U=\vert U\vert ^2U\ \tag{WS} \end{equation} on the spatial cylinder $\mathbb{R} \_x\times \mathbb{T}…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Haiyan Xu

Quantum scattering in the presence of a potential valley followed by a barrier is examined for the case of a Morse potential, for which exact analytic solutions to the Schr\UNICODE{0xf6}dinger equation are known in terms of confluent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Rawitscher , Cory Merow , Matthew Nguyen , Ionel Simbotin

For a time dependent Schr\"odinger equation, the scattering map is the map sending the asymptotic profile of solution as $t\to-\infty$ to its asymptotic profile as $t\to+\infty$. In this paper we show that, for certain class of metrics, the…

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