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Closed-form, normalizable solutions of Dirac's equation propagating within a semi-infinite cylindrical waveguide are obtained in terms of ordinary and modified Bessel functions. These relativistic wave packets induce quantum backflow on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Siddhant Das

We study the time-dependent scattering of a quantum mechanical wave packet at a barrier for energies larger than the barrier height, in the semi-classical regime. More precisely, we are interested in the leading order of the exponentially…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Volker Betz , Alain Joye , Stefan Teufel

A time-domain approach is proposed for the propagation of ultrashort electro- magnetic wave packets beyond the paraxial and the slowly-varying-envelope approximations. An analytical method based on perturbation theory is used to solve the…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles Varin , Michel Piché

We follow the temporal evolution of mesoscopic intensity fluctuations and correlation in strongly localized samples. We find an initial burst in relative transmission fluctuations in random one dimensional (1D) samples due to fluctuations…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Wang , A. A. Chabanov , D. Y. Lu , Z. Q. Zhang , A. Z. Genack

We study the quantum dynamics of a suddenly released beam of particles using a background independent (polymer) quantization scheme. We show that, in the first order of approximation, the low-energy polymer distribution converges to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 A. Martín-Ruiz

A numerical study of the properties of Gaussian pulses propagating in planar waveguide under the combined effect of positive Kerr-type nonlinearity, diffraction in planar waveguides and anomalous or normal dispersion, is presented. It is…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. E. Pietrzyk

A finite photonic lattice with two bands and a random gap is considered. Using a two-dimensional Dirac equation, the effect of a random sign of the Dirac mass is studied numerically. The edge state at the sample boundary has a strong…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-29 K. Ziegler

Radio waves propagating from distant pulsars in the interstellar medium (ISM), are refracted by electron density inhomogeneities, so that the intensity of observed pulses fluctuates with time. The theory relating the observed pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stanislav Boldyrev , Carl R. Gwinn

We study a single quantum particle in discrete spacetime evolving in a causal way. We see that in the continuum limit any massless particle with a two dimensional internal degree of freedom obeys the Weyl equation, provided that we perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Terence C. Farrelly , Anthony J. Short

We study classical and quantum dynamics of a kicked relativistic particle confined in a one dimensional box. It is found that in classical case for chaotic motion the average kinetic energy grows in time, while for mixed regime the growth…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 J. R. Yusupov , D. M. Otajanov , V. E. Eshniyazov , D. U. Matrasulov

We numerically investigate quantum diffusion of an electron in a model of poly(dG)-poly(dC) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) DNA polymers with fluctuation of the parameters due to the impact of colored noise. The randomness is introduced by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 H. Yamada , E. B. Starikov , D. Hennig

The study of the evolution of the dynamics of a massive or massless particle shows that in special relativity theory, the energy is not conserved. From the law of evolution of the velocity over time of a particle subjected to a constant…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Jean-Paul Caltagirone

Recent interest in the studies of structured states obtained in relativistic electron beams has highlighted the use of two alternative descriptions, each based on a different wavefunction and the related space-time density. Although both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 F. Daem , A. Matzkin

Two related problems in relativistic quantum mechanics, the apparent superluminal propagation of initially localized particles and dependence of spatial localization on the motion of the observer, are analyzed in the context of Dirac's…

General Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Francis S. G. Von Zuben

In our former contribution [Ann. Phys. 360 (2015) 44], we have shown the sensitivity to the choice of initial conditions in the evolution of Gaussian wave packets via the nonlinear Riccati equation. The formalism developed in the previous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Hans Cruz , Dieter Schuch , Octavio Castanos , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

In this paper, we report results for the wave packet dynamics in a class of quasiperiodic chains consisting of two types of weakly coupled clusters. The dynamics are studied by means of the return probability and the mean square…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-29 Stefanie Thiem , Michael Schreiber , Uwe Grimm

We consider a continuous random walk model for describing normal as well as anomalous diffusion of particles subjected to an external force when these particles diffuse in a uniformly expanding (or contracting) medium. A general equation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-17 F. Le Vot , S. B. Yuste

It is demonstrated that -- contrary to the common belief -- it is possible to construct solutions of the non-relativistic Schr\"odinger equation of a free particle, that do not exhibit dispersion. However, it seems that no normalizable wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-10 István Mayer

The dynamics of an initially localized wavepacket is studied for the generalized nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with a random potential, where the nonlinearity term is |\psi|^p*\psi and "p" is arbitrary. Mainly short times for which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 Hagar Veksler , Yevgeny Krivolapov , Shmuel Fishman

The paper examines stochastic diffusion within an expanding space-time framework. It starts with providing a rationale for the considered model and its motivation from cosmology where the expansion of space-time is used in modelling various…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Philip Broadbridge , Illia Donhauzer , Andriy Olenko