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We develop a quantum theory of electron confinement in metal nanofilms. The theory is used to compute the nonlinear response of the film to a static or low-frequency external electric field and to investigate the role of boundary conditions…

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I classify multiphoton absorption into separable, linked, and simultaneous processes. The first and second types can be distinguished when the rate-equation approximation is valid whereas the third type refers to the case when the full…

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The classical nonlinear laser-plasma interaction theory is corrected. Given the effects of vacuum polarization (induced by extreme laser) as nonlinear media response, one-dimensional wave equations of a monochromatic laser field are derived…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Wenbo Chen , Zhigang Bu , Hehe Li , Yuee Luo , Peiyong Ji

A linearizable version of multidimensional system of $n$-wave type nonlinear PDEs is proposed. This system is derived using the spectral representation of its solution via the procedure similar to the dressing method for the ISTM-integrable…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-03-08 A. I. Zenchuk

The linearity inherent in quantum mechanics limits current quantum hardware from directly solving nonlinear systems governed by nonlinear differential equations. One can opt for linearization frameworks such as Carleman linearization, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Tayyab Ali

We study theoretically the osmotic pressure of a suspension of charged objects (e.g., colloids, polyelectrolytes, clay platelets, etc.) dialyzed against an electrolyte solution using the cell model and linear Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Markus Deserno , Hans-Hennig von Grunberg

Linear response theory lies at the heart of quantum many-body physics because it builds up connections between the dynamical response to an external probe and correlation functions at equilibrium. Here we consider the dynamical response of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-08 Lei Pan , Xin Chen , Yu Chen , Hui Zhai

Linear response theory is concerned with the way in which a physical system reacts to a small change in the applied forces. Here we show that quantum mechanics in the Heisenberg representation can be understood as a linear response theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 Ana María Cetto , Luis de la Peña

Based on a microscopic model of nonequilibrium carrier generation in a leaky dielectric, we analytically derive hysteresis loops for the dielectric response of non-polar, non-ferroelectric materials. We demonstrate how complex dielectric…

The dynamics of fluctuations is considered for electrons near a positive ion or for charges in a confining trap. The stationary nonuniform equilibrium densities are discussed and contrasted. The linear response function for small…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeffrey Wrighton , James Dufty , Christian Henning , Michael Bonitz

This work is an enquiry into the circumstances under which entropy methods can give an answer to the questions of both quantum separability and classical correlations of a composite state. Several entropy functionals are employed to examine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. K. Rajagopal , R. W. Rendell

We study the problem of electronic conduction in mesoscopic systems when the electrons are allowed to interact not only with static impurities, but also with a scatterer (a phase breaker(PB)) that possesses internal degrees of freedom. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pier A. Mello , Yoseph Imry , Boris Shapiro

In quantum electrodynamics a classical part of the S-matrix is normally factored out in order to obtain a quantum remainder that can be treated perturbatively without the occurrence of infrared divergences. However, this separation, as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Henry P. Stapp

In this paper, we argue that quantum coherence in a bipartite system can be contained either locally or in the correlations between the subsystems. The portion of quantum coherence contained within correlations can be viewed as a kind…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kok Chuan Tan , Hyukjoon Kwon , Chae-Yeun Park , Hyunseok Jeong

The transfer matrix formalism is implemented in the form of the multiple collision technique to account for dissipative transmission processes by using complex potentials in several models of atomic chains. The absorption term is rigorously…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Cervero , A. Rodriguez

Density-functional theory is a formally exact description of a many-body quantum system in terms of its density; in practice, however, approximations to the universal density functional are required. In this work, a model based on deep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-02 Jeffrey M. McMahon

Band theory provides the foundation for understanding electronic structure in crystalline materials, but its reliance on exact translational symmetry limits its applicability to systems with defects, disorder, incommensurate modulations, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-08 Christopher A. Bairnsfather , Ralph M. Kaufmann , Terry A. Loring , Alexander Cerjan

In this paper, a compressible viscous-dispersive Euler system in one space dimension in the context of quantum hydrodynamics is considered. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is shown that the system is locally well-posed. For…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Ramón G. Plaza , Delyan Zhelyazov

A comprehensive description of molecular electron transfer reactions is essential for our understanding of fundamental phenomena in bio-energetics and molecular electronics. Experimental studies of molecular systems in condensed-phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-04 Frank Schlawin , Manuel Gessner , Andreas Buchleitner , Tobias Schaetz , Spiros S Skourtis

Because of the potentially large number of important applications of nonlinear optics, researchers have expended a great deal of effort to optimize the second-order molecular nonlinear-optical response, called the hyperpolarizability. The…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-17 David S. Watkins , Mark G. Kuzyk