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Experiments quantifying the rotational and translational motion of particles in a dense, driven, 2D granular gas floating on an air table reveal that kinetic energy is divided equally between the two translational and one rotational degrees…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 Kiri Nichol , Karen E. Daniels

We have obtained general expressions for the intensity of radiation and tangential force of a small polarizable particle in the process of translational-rotational motion in equilibrium radiation background (thermalized photon gas) of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 G. V. Dedkov , A. A. Kyasov

The prospect of controlling entanglement in interacting quantum systems offers a myriad of technological and scientific promises, given the progress in experimental studies in systems such as ultracold trapped gases. This control is often…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-16 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Bohan Xu , Adilson E. Motter

We investigate an explicit example of how spatial decoherence can lead to hydrodynamic behavior in the late-time, long-wavelength regime of open quantum systems. We focus on the case of a single non-relativistic quantum particle linearly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Zhi-Li Zhou , Mauricio Hippert , Nicki Mullins , Jorge Noronha

The modeling of conformations and dynamics of (bio)polymers is of primary importance for understanding physicochemical properties of soft matter. Although short-range interactions such as covalent and hydrogen bonding control the local…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-08-24 Mario Galante , Alexandre Tkatchenko

We investigate the effect of anharmonicity and interactions on the dynamics of an initially Gaussian wavepacket in a weakly anharmonic potential. We note that depending on the strength and sign of interactions and anharmonicity, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Herrera , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Shmuel Fishman

In this report, we present a dynamical systems' approach to study the exact nonlinear wave-particle interaction in relativistic regime. We give a particular attention to the effect of wave obliquity on the dynamics of the orbits by studying…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 A. Osmane , A. M. Hamza

The dynamics of anisotropic nano- to microscale colloidal particles in confined environments, either near neighboring particles or boundaries, is relevant to a wide range of applications. We utilized Brownian dynamics simulations to predict…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-29 Aidin Rashidi , Sepideh Razavi , Christopher L. Wirth

When fluids of anisotropic molecules are placed in temperature gradients, the molecules may align themselves along the gradient: this is called thermo-orientation. We discuss the theory of this effect in a fluid of particles that interact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-02 Robert L. Jack , Peter Wirnsberger , Aleks Reinhardt

With recent developments in high-precision quantum measurements, the question of whether observations of decoherence from spacetime fluctuations are accessible experimentally arises. Here we investigate the dynamics of bound states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Teodora Oniga , Charles H. -T. Wang

We report a systematic procedure to engineer the van der Waals force between levitated nanoparticles in high vacuum by setting them into a fast rotation. By tuning the rotation frequency close to a polaritonic resonance, we can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 H. S. G. Amaral , P. P. Abrantes , F. Impens , P. A. Maia Neto , R. de Melo e Souza

Within a closed system, physical interactions are reciprocal. However, the effective interaction between two entities of an open system may not obey reciprocity. Here, we describe a non-reciprocal interaction between nanoparticles which is…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-02 Amir M. Jazayeri , Sohila Abdelhafiz , Aristide Dogariu

The propagation of a spherical wave through a two-dimensional random Lorentz gas composed of small fixed scatterers is studied. Inspired by the Mott problem (how an initially isotropic quantum wave can give rise to a single particle-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Baptiste Lorent , Jean-Marc Sparenberg , David Gaspard

Optomechanical manipulation of nanoparticles enabling ultimate control over their 3D motion is nowadays one of the most highly demanded links between optics, biology, medicine, microfluidics, etc., paving the way for a plethora of emerging…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 D. A. Dolinina , A. S. Shalin , A. V. Yulin

A theoretical analysis of the rotational dynamics induced by off axis binary collisions of quantum droplets constituted by ultracold atoms is reported. We focus on quantum droplets formed by degenerate dilute Bose gases made up from binary…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-15 J. E. Alba-Arroyo , S. F. Caballero-Benitez , R. Jauregui

New classical modalities of atomic force microscopy continue to emerge to achieve higher spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution for nanometrology of materials. Here, we introduce the concept of a quantum mechanical modality that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ali Passian , George Siopsis

Computer modeling of the one-dimensional and three-dimensional nanoparticles with Van-der-Waals interaction was performed. The arrangement of atoms was defined on the grounds of an energy minimum. The calculations have shown that in the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-17 M. A. Korshunov

The long-range electrostatic interactions between molecules depend strongly on their relative orientation, which manifests as a rotational state dependence. Interactions between molecules in the same rotational quantum state are well-known…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Etienne F. Walraven , Tijs Karman

Decoherence is ubiquitous in quantum physics, from the conceptual foundations to quantum information processing or quantum technologies, where it is a threat that must be countered. While decoherence has been extensively studied for simple,…

The interaction between spherical magnetic nanoparticles is investigated from micromagnetic simulations and ananlysed in terms of the leading dipolar interaction energy between magnetic dipoles. We focus mainly on the case where the…

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