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A system of coupled kinetic transport equations for the Wigner distributions of a free variable mass Klein-Gordon field is derived. This set of equations is formally equivalent to the full wave equation for electromagnetic waves in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. P. Santos , L. O. Silva

A physically transparent and mathematically simple semiclassical model is employed to examine dynamics in the central-spin problem. The results reproduce a number of previous findings obtained by various quantum approaches and, at the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 Tomasz Dietl

We investigate the properties of standing waves to a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with inverse-square potential on the half-line. We first establish the existence of standing waves. Then, by a variational characterization of the ground…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Elek Csobo

A systematic procedure to study one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation with a position-dependent effective mass (PDEM) in the kinetic energy operator is explored. The conventional free-particle problem reveals a new and interesting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 B. Bagchi , P. Gorain , C. Quesne , R. Roychoudhury

The study of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the position-dependent effective mass has attracted a lot of attention, due to its applications in many fields of physics, including the properties of the semiconductors, semiconductor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Tiberiu Harko , Man Kwong Mak

We propose a simple phenomenological model to estimate the spatial decoherence time in quantum dots. The dissipative phase space dynamics is described in terms of the density matrix and the corresponding Wigner function, which are derived…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-05-05 Michael Genkin , Erik Waltersson , Eva Lindroth

We show that the quantum wavefunction, interpreted as the probability density of finding a single non-localized quantum particle, which evolves according to classical laws of motion, is an intermediate description of a material quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman

The equations of motion for the position and gauge invariant crystal momentum are considered for multiband wave packets of Bloch electrons. For a localized packet in a subset of bands well-separated from the rest of the band structure of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Troy Stedman , Carsten Timm , Lilia M. Woods

We study the semi-classical trace formula at a critical energy level for a Schr\"odinger operator on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. We assume here that the potential has a totally degenerate critical point associated to a local maximum. The main result,…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brice Camus

The present work is devoted to the study of dynamical features of Bohmian measures, recently introduced by the authors. We rigorously prove that for sufficiently smooth wave functions the corresponding Bohmian measure furnishes a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-19 Peter Markowich , Thierry Paul , Christof Sparber

We study the Dirac equation with slowly varying external potentials. Using matrix-valued Wigner functions we prove that the electron follows with high precision the classical orbit and that the spin precesses according to the BMT equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Herbert Spohn

In this work we investigate the Wigner localization of two interacting electrons at very low density in two and three dimensions using the exact diagonalization of the many-body Hamiltonian. We use our recently developed method based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-13 Miguel Escobar Azor , Estefania Alves , Stefano Evangelisti , J. Arjan Berger

We use Density Functional Theory to study interacting spinless electrons on a one-dimensional quantum ring in the density range where the system undergoes Wigner crystallization. The Wigner transition leads to a drastic ``collective''…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 Marc Siegmund , Markus Hofmann , Oleg Pankratov

The Wigner delay time is addressed semiclassically using the Miller's S-matrix expressed in terms of open orbits. This leads to a very appealing expression, in terms of classical paths, for the energy averaged Wigner time delay in chaotic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Raul O. Vallejos

We analyze the one-dimensional semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation on the half-line with a linear potential and Dirichlet boundary conditions. Our main focus is on establishing improved dispersive and Strichartz estimates for this model,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Oana Ivanovici

The object of study in this paper is the on-shell scattering matrix $S(E)$ of the Schr\"odinger operator with the potential satisfying assumptions typical in the theory of shape resonances. We study the spectrum of $S(E)$ in the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-22 Shu Nakamura , Alexander Pushnitski

A system of confined charged electrons interacting via the long-range Coulomb force can form a Wigner crystal due to their mutual repulsion. This happens when the potential energy of the system dominates over its kinetic energy, i.e., at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 DinhDuy Vu , Sankar Das Sarma

Polarons, that is, charge carriers correlated with lattice deformations, are ubiquitous quasiparticles in semiconductors, and play an important role in electrical conductivity. To date most theoretical studies of so-called large polarons,…

We demonstrate that electrons in quantum dots defined by electrostatic gates in semiconductor nanotubes freeze orderly in space realizing a `Wigner molecule'. Our exact diagonalisation calculations uncover the features of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Andrea Secchi , Massimo Rontani

We prove some multiplicity results by means of a perturbation technique in critical point theory.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 S. Cingolani , S. Secchi