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We give a mathematical construction of Euclidean quantum field theory on certain curved backgrounds. We focus on generalizing Osterwalder-Schrader quantization, as these methods have proved useful to establish estimates for interacting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Arthur Jaffe , Gordon Ritter

Classical molecular dynamics and electro-diffusion theories have achieved profound success in elucidating ion selectivity and gating mechanisms. However, reconciling strict selectivity with high flux permeation in Angstrom-scaled biological…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Bin Zhou , Yangmei Li , Ziyi Zhang , Yindong Huang , Zuoxian Xiang , Chao Chang

We revisit the formalism for tunneling in quantum field theory developed by Coleman and collaborators. In particular using the generalization of WKB methods for tunneling in quantum mechanics we avoid the problems with negative eigenvalues…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-04 S. P. de Alwis

Background: Quantum tunneling in many-body systems is the subject of many experimental and theoretical studies in fields ranging from cold atoms to nuclear physics. However, theoretical description of quantum tunneling with strongly…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-18 Patrick McGlynn , Cedric Simenel

Quantum tunneling in a many-body system is much more non-trivial than that in a one-body system. The most characteristic phenomenon is the mixed tunneling, which has been studied in many fields for decades. For instance, let us consider a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-11 Yutaro Shoji

High-dimensional entanglement with spatial modes of light promises increased security and information capacity over quantum channels. Unfortunately, entanglement decays due to perturbations, corrupting quantum links which cannot be repaired…

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

In this work we develop an alternative approach for solution of Quantum Trajectories using the Path Integral method. The state-of-the-art technique in the field is to solve a set of non-linear, coupled partial differential equations (PDEs)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-16 Sagnik Ghosh , Swapan K. Ghosh

We use an one dimensional model of a square barrier embedded in an infinite potential well to demonstrate that tunneling leads to a complex behavior of the wave function and that the degree of complexity may be quantified by use of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-20 Ofir Flom , Asher Yahalom , Haggai Zilberberg , L. P. Horwitz , Jacob Levitan

Quasiclassical methods for non-adiabatic quantum dynamics can reveal new features of quantum effects, such as tunneling evolution, that are harder to reveal in standard treatments based on wave functions of stationary states. Here, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Martin Bojowald , Pip Petersen

Quantum tunneling is a fundamental quantum mechanical effect involved in plenty of physical phenomena. Its control would impact these phenomena and the technologies based on them. We show that the quantum tunneling probability through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Miguel A. Porras , Nilo Mata , Isabel Gonzalo

We adapt the semiclassical technique, as used in the context of instanton transitions in quantum field theory, to the description of tunneling transmissions at finite energies through potential barriers by complex quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Bonini , A. G. Cohen , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

The tunneling potential formalism makes it easy to construct exact solutions to the vacuum decay problem in potentials with multiple fields. While some exact solutions for single-field decays were known, we present the first nontrivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 J. R. Espinosa , T. Konstandin

Back reaction of the particle creation on the quantum tunneling process is analyzed in real time formalism. We use quantum potential method in which whole quantum dynamics is exactly projected to a classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fumiaki Shibata , Masahiro Morikawa , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Masahide Yamaguchi

We study the dynamics of multi-dimensional quantum tunneling by introducing a complex absorbing potential to a two-dimensional model for spontaneous fission. We fist diagonalize the Hamiltonian with the complex potential to determine a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Guillaume Scamps , Kouichi Hagino

Dissipative quantum tunnelling through an inverted parabolic barrier is considered in the presence of an electric field. A Schr\"odinger-Langevin or Kostin quantum classical transition wave equation is used and applied resulting in a scaled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-03 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

Tunneling is an iconic concept that captures the peculiarity of quantum dynamics but, despite its ubiquity, questions remain. We focus on strong-field tunneling, which is vital to all attosecond science. We find an unexpected optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Anne Weber , Margarita Khokhlova , Emilio Pisanty

We bring together the semiclassical approximation, matrix integrals and the theory of symmetric polynomials in order to solve a long standing problem in the field of quantum chaos: to compute transport moments when tunnel barriers are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 Lucas H. Oliveira , Pedro H. S. Bento , Marcel Novaes

Tunneling of a particle through a potential barrier remains one of the most remarkable quantum phenomena. Owing to advances in laser technology, electric fields comparable to those electrons experience in atoms are readily generated and…

Quantum annealing has emerged as a promising approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, leveraging quantum phenomena such as quantum tunneling to navigate complex energy landscapes. However, the extent to which quantum tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Vishwajeet Ohal , Pierre Boulanger