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The focus of this paper is on a thin obstacle problem where the obstacle is defined on the intersection between a hyper-plane $\Gamma$ in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and a periodic perforation $\mathcal{T}_\varepsilon$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$, depending on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Ki-ahm Lee , Martin Strömqvist , Minha Yoo

The pressureless tachyonic matter recently found in superstring field theory has an over-abundance problem in cosmology. We argue that this problem is naturally solved in the brane inflationary scenario if almost all of the tachyon energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Gary Shiu , S. -H. Henry Tye , Ira Wasserman

The tunneling effect of a periodic potential with an asymmetric twin barrier per period is calculated using the instanton method. The model is derived from the Hamiltonian of a small ferromagnetic particle in an external magnetic field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 J. -Q. Liang , H. J. W. Mueller-Kirsten , Jian-Ge Zhou , F. Zimmerschied , F. -C. Pu

The Klein-Gordon field of imaginary mass is considered as a mediator of particle interaction. The static tachyon exchange potential is derived and its applied meaning is discussed. The Schr\"odinger equation with this potential is studied…

General Physics · Physics 2019-10-28 Iryna Zahladko , Askold Duviryak

For a cosmological first-order electroweak phase transition, requiring no sphaleron washout of baryon number violating processes leads to a lower bound on the strength of the transition. The velocity of the boundary between the phases, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-18 Shehu AbdusSalam , Layla Kalhor , Mohammad Javad Kazemi

In this study, a novel theory to investigate the mass oscillation of particles is proposed. It has been proven that, at high-energy conditions, the fermion field described by Dirac Lagrangian interacts with the half-integer spin tachyon…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Luca Nanni

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of particles overcoming the hydrodynamic barrier posed by a thin fluid film to achieve contact in finite time, a phenomenon critical in various natural and engineered processes such as enzyme…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-06 John Sebastian , Alexander L. Schødt , Kaare H. Jensen

Quantum particles interacting with potential barriers are ubiquitous in physics, and the question of how much time they spend inside classically forbidden regions has attracted interest for many decades. Recent developments of new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-06 Seyedmohammad Yusofsani , Miroslav Kolesik

In this paper, the influence of the fractional dimensions of the L\'evy path under the Earth's gravitational field is studied, and the phase transitions of energy and wave functions are obtained: the energy changes from discrete to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-14 Xiao Zhang , Bo Yang , Chaozhen Wei , Maokang Luo

We investigate a moving boundary problem for a Brownian particle on the semi-infinite line in which the boundary moves by a distance proportional to the time between successive collisions of the particle and the boundary. Phenomenologically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 B. De Bruyne , J. Randon-Furling , S. Redner

In this work, we consider one-dimensional particles interacting in mean-field type through a bounded kernel. In addition, when particles hit some barrier (say zero), they are removed from the system. This absorption of particles is…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Gaoyue Guo , Maxime Latypov , Milica Tomasevic

Particle-antiparticle pairs are predicted by quantum field theory to appear as vacuum fluctuations. The model of the vacuum used here is postulated to have the following properties: To minimize the violation of conservation energy allowed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 G. B. Mainland , Bernard Mulligan

As shown in Phys. Rev. A 96, 020101(R) (2017), it is possible to demonstrate that quantum particles do not move along straight lines in free space by increasing the probability of finding the particles within narrow intervals of position…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-08 Holger F. Hofmann

We investigate Klein tunneling through finite potential barriers with space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field equations. We find that no particle actually tunnels through a finite supercritical barrier, even in the case…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 M. Alkhateeb , A. Matzkin

A fundamental dynamical constraint -- that fluctuation induced charge-weighted particle flux must vanish -- can prevent instabilities from accessing the free energy in the strong gradients characteristic of Transport Barriers (TBs). Density…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Mike Kotschenreuther , Xing Liu , Swadesh M. Mahajan , David R. Hatch , Gabriele Merlo

We first study a $d$-dimensional branching Brownian motion (BBM) among mild Poissonian obstacles, where a random trap field in $\mathbb{R}^d$ is created via a Poisson point process. The trap field consists of balls of fixed radius centered…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Mehmet Öz

We consider Brownian motions with one-sided collisions, meaning that each particle is reflected at its right neighbour. For a finite number of particles a Sch\"{u}tz-type formula is derived for the transition probability. We investigate an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-23 Patrik L. Ferrari , Herbert Spohn , Thomas Weiss

Photodetachment of H$^-$ near a potential barrier is studied. A new formula is presented for the cross sections induced by a barrier. The new formula describes two quantum effects near barrier tops. For energies near and above barrier tops,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-08-23 B. C. Yang , M. L. Du

We discuss phenomenology of extra time dimensions in a scenario where the standard model particles are localized in ``our'' time, whereas gravity can propagate in all time dimensions. For an odd number of extra times, at small distances,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Gia Dvali , Gregory Gabadadze , Goran Senjanovic

When a thermodynamic system is released from any constraint, after some time its evolution will render it into an equilibrium state. Although the description of this relaxation to thermodynamic equilibrium has been attempted through both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Silvina Limandri , Silvina Segui , Bruno Castellano , Ignacio Belitzky , Gustavo Castellano