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Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

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We derive the quantum-mechanical master equation (generalized optical Bloch equation) for an atom in the vicinity of a flat dielectric surface. This equation gives access to the semiclassical radiation pressure force and the atomic momentum…

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We study a special kind of semiclassical limit of quantum dynamics on a circle and in a box (infinite potential well with hard walls) as the Planck constant tends to zero and time tends to infinity. The results give detailed information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-18 A. S. Trushechkin , I. V. Volovich

We provide simple examples of closed-form Gaussian wavepacket solutions of the free-particle Schrodinger equation in one dimension which exhibit the most general form of the time-dependent spread in position, namely (Delta x_t)^2 = (Delta…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. W. Robinett , M. A. Doncheski , L. C. Bassett

We consider the quantum mechanical propagator for a particle moving in a $d$-dimensional Lorentz gas, with fixed, hard sphere scatterers. To evaluate this propagator in the semi-classical region, and for times less than the Ehrenfest time,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Arseni Goussev , J. R. Dorfman

We present a method to calculate exact dynamics of a wave-packet in a quantum two-state problem with Dirac delta coupling. The advantage of our method is that the calculations are done in the time domain. Hence inverting the solutions from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Saravanan Rajendran , Aniruddha Chakraborty

A theory of electromagnetic wave propagation in a weakly anisotropic smoothly inhomogeneous medium is developed, based on the quantum-mechanical diagonalization procedure applied to Maxwell equations. The equations of motion for the…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Yu. Bliokh , D. Yu. Frolov , Yu. A. Kravtsov

Twisted gravitational waves (TGWs) are nonplanar waves with twisted rays that move along a fixed direction in space. We study further the physical characteristics of a recent class of Ricci-flat solutions of general relativity representing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Donato Bini , Carmen Chicone , Bahram Mashhoon , Kjell Rosquist

We study the biased diffusion of particles moving in one direction under the action of a constant force in the presence of a piecewise linear random potential. Using the overdamped equation of motion, we represent the first and second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-08 S. I. Denisov , E. S. Denisova , H. Kantz

We investigate the Gouy phase emerging from the time evolution of confined matter waves in a harmonic potential. Specifically, we analyze the quantum dynamics of a Gaussian wavepacket that exhibits position-momentum correlations. By tuning…

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) wave packets, known for their vortex structure and nonzero orbital angular momentum (OAM), are of great interest in various scientific fields. Here we study the nonrelativistic dynamics of a spatially-localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 A. Kudlis , I. A. Aleksandrov , N. N. Rosanov

Rotating turbulence is ubiquitous in nature. Previous works suggest that such turbulence could be described as an ensemble of interacting inertial waves across a wide range of length scales. For turbulence in macroscopic quantum…

There are conflicting statements in the literature about the gravitational Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized electromagnetic radiation travelling through a gravitational wave. This issue is reconsidered using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni

We investigate the influence of a gravitational wave background on particles in circular motion. We are especially interested in waves leading to stationary orbits. This consideration is limited to circular orbits perpendicular to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Manfried Faber , Martin Suda

We investigate the dynamics of a rotating Morse wave packet, appropriate for a ro-vibrating diatomic molecule. The coupling between vibrational and rotational degrees of freedom is explicated in real position space as well as in phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-20 Utpal Roy , Suranjana Ghosh

An exact solution of the homogeneous wave equation, which was found previously, is treated from the point of view of continuous wavelet analysis (CWA). If time is a fixed parameter, the solution represents a new multidimensional mother…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria V Perel , Mikhail S Sidorenko

We examine the motion of a relativistic charged particle in a constant magnetic field perturbed by gravitational waves incident along the direction of the magnetic field. We apply a generalized energy conservation law to compute the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. van Holten

In this study, potential scatterings are formulated in experimental setups with Gaussian wave packets in accordance with a probability principle and associativity of products. A breaking of an associativity is observed in scalar products…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Kenzo Ishikawa

We have found a new class of time dependent partial waves which are solutions of time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for three dimensional harmonic oscillator. We also showed the decomposition of coherent states of harmonic oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Arvieu , P. Rozmej , W. Berej

We derive expressions for the energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum content of circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian wave-packets propagating in free space. The vectorial nature of the electromagnetic field is taken into account,…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur