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We continue our explorations of the transport characteristics in junction-configurations comprising semimetals with quadratic band-crossings, observed in the bandstructures of both two- and three-dimensional materials. Here, we consider…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-21 Ipsita Mandal

We point out that a non-overlapping well (at negative energies) adjacent to a finite barrier (at positive energies) is a simple potential which is generally missed out while discussing the one-dimensional potentials in the textbooks of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 Zafar Ahmed

We study quantum tunneling in an asymmetric double-well potential using a dynamical systems--based approach rooted in the Ehrenfest formalism. In this framework, the time evolution of a Gaussian wave packet is governed by a hierarchy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Swetamber Das , Arghya Dutta

The new generation of planar Penning traps promises to be a flexible and versatile tool for quantum information studies. Here, we propose a fully controllable and reversible way to change the typical trapping harmonic potential into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ciaramicoli , I. Marzoli , P. Tombesi

The authors theoretically investigate quantum confinement and transition energies in quantum wells (QWs) asymmetrically positioned in wrinkled nanomembranes. Calculations reveal that the wrinkle profile induces both blue- and redshifts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-14 P. Cendula , S. Kiravittaya , O. G. Schmidt

A double--layer system in a strong perpendicular magnetic field is considered. We assume a random potential in each layer to be smooth. We also assume that there is no correlation between random potentials in different layers. Under these…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Gramada , M. E. Raikh

The construction of Dirac delta type potentials has been achieved with the use of the theory of self adjoint extensions of non-self adjoint formally Hermitian (symmetric) operators. The application of this formalism to investigate the…

Within the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics in linear, causal media, we study the van der Waals potentials of ground-state atoms in planar magnetodielectric host media. Our investigation extends earlier ones in two aspects:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-23 Agnes Sambale , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch , Ho Trung Dung , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

In the deformed quantum mechanics with a minimal length, one WKB connection formula through a turning point is derived. We then use it to calculate tunnelling rates through potential barriers under the WKB approximation. Finally, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Xiaobo Guo , Bochen Lv , Jun Tao , Peng Wang

In this paper an iterative minimization method is proposed to approximate the minimizer to the double-well energy functional arising in the phase-field theory. The method is based on a quadratic functional posed over a nonempty closed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-19 Qian Zhang , Long Chen , Yifeng Xu

The dynamics of a particle interacting with random classical field in a two-well potential is studied by the functional integration method. The probability of particle localization in either of the wells is studied in detail. Certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-08 G. B. Lesovik , A. V. Lebedev , A. O. Imambekov

The Fourier component of the potential energy of interaction of an atom with an atom is represented as a polynomial of the fourth degree from the atomic form factor. A numerical calculation was performed for the atomic form factor in the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Vladimir. P. Koshcheev , Dmitry. A. Morgun , Yuriy. N. Shtanov

In this paper we derive a formula for the density of states in the presence of inelastic scattering in the quantum well of a double barrier structure as a function of a characteristic time of the motion of electrons (namely, the round trip…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Giuseppe Iannaccone , Bruno Pellegrini

We reformulate quantum tunneling in a multi-dimensional system where the tunneling sector is non-linearly coupled to oscillators. The WKB wave function is explicitly constructed under the assumption that the system was in the ground state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 Kazuyuki Sugimura

The problem of quantum state discrimination between two wave functions of a particle in a square well potential is considered. The optimal minimum-error probability is known to be given by the Helstrom bound. A new strategy is introduced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-28 Bernhard K. Meister

We consider tunneling between 2 symmetric potential wells for a 2-d Schrodinger operator, in the case of eigenvalues associated with quasi-modes supported on KAM or Birkhoff tori.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michel Rouleux

We investigate (theoretically and numerically) the dynamics of a soliton moving in an asymmetrical potential well with a finite barrier. For large values of the width of the well, the width of the barrier and/or the height of the barrier,…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Gonzalez , A. Bellorin , L. E. Guerrero

We present lower bounds on tunneling rates in magnetic double well systems for generic values of the coupling constant. This result was recently announced in \cite{FSW24} and complements our recent counter-example construction which…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Charles L. Fefferman , Jacob Shapiro , Michael I. Weinstein

We consider a single impurity atom trapped in a double well (DW) potential created by a dipolar two-soliton molecule in a quasi-one-dimensional geometry. By solving the eigenvalue problem for the impurity atom in the DW potential, we find…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-27 S. M. Al-Marzoug , B. B. Baizakov , U. Al Khawaja , H. Bahlouli

A double well loaded with bosonic atoms represents an ideal candidate to simulate some of the most interesting aspects in the phenomenology of thermalisation and equilibration. Here we report an exhaustive analysis of the dynamics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Steve Campbell , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro