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Geometric analogs of Bloch oscillations studied so far have relied on Berry curvature. We show that a weakly inhomogeneous electric field adds a distinct quantum-metric term to semiclassical wavepacket dynamics, generating an oscillatory…

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Bloch oscillations, the oscillatory motion of a quantum particle in a periodic potential, are one of the most fascinating effects of coherent quantum transport. Originally studied in the context of electrons in crystals, Bloch oscillations…

Mapping conformational heterogeneity of macromolecules presents a formidable challenge to X-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy, which often presume its absence. This has severely limited our knowledge of the conformations…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Schwander , R. Fung , G. N. Phillips , A. Ourmazd

We present a new approach in modelling the polarized Galactic synchrotron emission in the microwave range (20-100 GHz), where this radiation is expected to play the leading role in contaminating the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bernardi , E. Carretti , R. Fabbri , C. Sbarra , S. Poppi , S. Cortiglioni

A novel DC and AC driving configuration is proposed for semiconductor superlattices, in which the THz AC driving is provided by an intense bichromatic cw laser. The two components of the laser, usually in the visible light range, are near…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ren-Bao Liu , Bang-Fen Zhu

Bloch oscillations of Bose-Einstein condensates realize sensitive matter-wave interferometers. We investigate the dynamics and stability of bright-soliton wave packets in one-dimensional tilted optical lattices with a modulated mean-field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-06-03 E. Diaz , C. Gaul , R. P. A. Lima , F. Dominguez-Adame , C. A. Mueller

The transient picture for a Bloch electron accelerating in an arbitrarily time-dependent homogeneous electric field is developed. The temporal sequence for the analysis includes the instant after electron injection, followed by the time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 G. J. Iafrate , V. N. Sokolov

Calculations of propagating quantum trajectories associated to a wave function provide new insight into quantum processes such as particle scattering and diffraction. Here, hydrodynamic calculations of electron beam imaging under conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-12 Samantha Rudinsky , Raynald Gauvin

X-waves are an example of a localized wave packet solution of the homogeneous wave equation, and can potentially arise in any area of physics relating to wave phenomena, such as acoustics, electromagnetism, or quantum mechanics. They have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-06-19 David Colas , Fabrice P. Laussy , Matthew J. Davis

The purpose of this paper is to show the relationship in all dimensions between the structural (diffraction pattern) aspect of tilings (described by \v{C}ech cohomology of the tiling space) and the spectral properties (of Hamiltonians…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Eric Akkermans , Yaroslav Don , Jonathan Rosenberg , Claude L. Schochet

Since 2015 the advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO) has detected a large number of gravitational wave events, originating from both binary neutron stars and binary black hole (BBH) mergers. In light of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-30 Pieter van der Merwe , Markus Böttcher

The aim of this paper is twofold. One is to introduce the class of harmonic $\nu$-Bloch-type mappings as a generalization of harmonic $\nu$-Bloch mappings and thereby we generalize some recent results of harmonic $1$-Bloch-type mappings…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2017-07-07 Gang Liu , Saminathan Ponnusamy

Scattering of electromagnetic (EM) waves by many small particles (bodies) embedded in a homogeneous medium is studied. Physical properties of the particles are described by their boundary impedances. The limiting equation is obtained for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 A. G. Ramm

This review discusses progress in the new field of coherent matter waves, in particular with respect to Bose-Einstein condensates. We give a short introduction to Bose-Einstein condensation and the theoretical description of the condensate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bongs , K. Sengstock

Bose-Einstein condensates with their superfluidity property provide an interesting parallel to classical fluids. Due to the Kolmogorov spectrum of homogeneous turbulence the statistics of the incompressible velocity field is of great…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-16 Marcos A. G. dos Santos Filho , Francisco E. A. dos Santos

Magnetic Bloch points (BPs) are highly confined magnetization configurations, that often occur in transient spin dynamics processes. However, opposing chiralities of adjacent layers for instance in a FeGe bilayer stack can stabilize such…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-30 Thomas Brian Winkler , Marijan Beg , Martin Lang , Mathias Kläui , Hans Fangohr

Relations between particle and wave properties for charge carriers in periodic potentials of crystalline metals and semiconductors are derived. The particle aspects of electrons and holes in periodic potentials are considered using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Wlodek Zawadzki

Biot's theory predicts the wave velocities of a saturated poroelastic granular medium from the elastic properties, density and geometry of its dry solid matrix and the pore fluid, neglecting the interaction between constituent particles and…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Hongyang Cheng , Stefan Luding , Nicolás Rivas , Jens Harting , Vanessa Magnanimo

We consider Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms stored in a one-dimensional vertical optical lattice and simultaneously interacting with a unidirectionally pumped optical ring cavity whose vertical arm is collinear with the optical…

We present simulation results on the structure and dynamics of micromagnetic point singularities with atomistic resolution. This is achieved by embedding an atomistic computational region into a standard micromagnetic algorithm. Several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-04-09 Christian Andreas , Attila Kákay , Riccardo Hertel