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Requiring that the path integral has the global symmetries of the classical action and obeys the natural composition property of path integrals, and also that the discretized action has the correct naive continuum limit, we find a viable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Grundberg , U. Lindstrom , H. Nordstrom

The activation of matrix metalloproteinase 2 (MMP2) is a crucial event during tumor metastasis and invasion, and this pathway network consists of 3 monomers. The pathway network of the activation obeys to a set of specified reaction rules.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-08 Keiko Itano

This paper presents a simple model that mimics quantum mechanics (QM) results in terms of probability fields of free particles subject to self-interference, without using Schr\"{o}dinger equation or wavefunctions. Unlike the standard QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Antonio Sciarretta

The mesoscopic Stoner instability is an intriguing manifestation of symmetry breaking in isolated metallic quantum dots, underlined by the competition between single-particle energy and Heisenberg exchange interaction. Here we study this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 I. S. Burmistrov , Y. Gefen , D. S. Shapiro , A. Shnirman

We show the transition from a fully quantized interaction to a semiclassical one in entangled small number quantum systems using the quantum trajectories approach. In particular, we simulate the microwave Ramsey zones used in Rydberg atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Marcelo França Santos

We investigate the phase-space dynamics of the Kramers Henneberger (KH) atom solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for reduced-dimensionality models and using Wigner quasiprobability distributions. We find that, for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 A. Tasnim Aynul , L. Cruz Rodriguez , C. Figueira de Morisson Faria

A fundamental belief is that the formulism of relativistic quantum mechanics equations (RQMEs) should remain in low momentum motion. However, it is found that some formulas from RQMEs were lost in Schr\"odinger equation. For example, a free…

General Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 Huai-Yu Wang

First, we show that there exists in classical mechanics three actions corresponding to different boundary conditions: two well-known actions, the Euler-Lagrange classical action S_cl(x,t;x_0), which links the initial position x_0 and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran

Different approaches are compared to formulation of quantum mechanics of a particle on the curved spaces. At first, the canonical, quasi-classical and path integration formalisms are considered for quantization of geodesic motion on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

In this paper we complete the study of global minimizers of a forced, non autonomous, one dimensional, phase transition model, initiated in [8]. Motivated by the recent findings in [9], revealing new configurations of topological structures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Panayotis Smyrnelis , Marcel G. Clerc , Manuel Diaz-Zuniga , Michał Kowalczyk

It is commonly assumed that no accurate experimental information can be obtained on the path taken by a particle when quantum interference between the paths is observed. However, recent progress in the measurement and control of quantum…

In this work the induced van der Waals interaction between a pair of neutral atoms or molecules is considered by use of a statistical mechanical method. Commonly this interaction is obtained by standard quantum mechanical perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Johan S. Høye

We perform molecular dynamics simulation of a small number of particles in a box with periodic boundary conditions from a view point of chaotic dynamical systems. There is a transition at a critical energy E_c that each particle is confined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hidetsugu Sakaguchi

When physical systems are tunable by three classical parameters, level degeneracies may occur at isolated points in parameter space. A topological singularity in the phase of the degenerate eigenvectors exists at these points. When a path…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Raphaël Leone , Laurent Lévy

We derive the Schroedinger equation for a spinless charged particle constrained to a curved surface with electric and magnetics fields applied. The particle is confined on the surface using a thin-layer procedure, giving rise to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-14 Giulio Ferrari , Giampaolo Cuoghi

We propose categories of $1$-dimensional and multi-dimensional quantum walks. In the categories, an object is a quantum walk, and a morphism is an intertwining operator between two quantum walks. The new framework enables us to discuss…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-31 Hiroki Sako

Isomerization, i.e. the rearrangement between distinct molecular configurations, is a fundamental process in chemistry. Here we demonstrate that two-dimensional Coulomb crystals can emulate molecular isomerization and be used to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Naoto Mizukami , Gabriele Gatta , Lucia Duca , Carlo Sias

The full spectrum and eigenfunctions of the quantum version of a nonlinear oscillator defined on an N-dimensional space with nonconstant curvature are rigorously found. Since the underlying curved space generates a position-dependent…

We study quantum mechanical tunneling using complex solutions of the classical field equations. Simple visualization techniques allow us to unify and generalize previous treatments, and straightforwardly show the connection to the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Sebastian F. Bramberger , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

One of the most fundamental difference between classical and quantum mechanics is observed in the particle tunneling through a localized potential: the former predicts a discontinuous transmission coefficient ($T$) as a function in incident…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-05 Ching-Hao Wang , Tzay-Ming Hong , Ray-Kuang Lee , Daw-Wei Wang