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We investigate properties of a particle confined to a hard-wall spiral-shaped region. As a case study we analyze in detail the Archimedean spiral for which the spectrum above the continuum threshold is absolutely continuous away from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Pavel Exner , Milos Tater

Bilayer silicene has richer physical properties than bilayer graphene due to its buckled structure together with its trigonal symmetric structure. The buckled structure arises from a large ionic radius of silicon, and the trigonal symmetry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-01 Motohiko Ezawa

We study a crystal composed of active units governed by self-alignment and chirality. The first mechanism acts as an effective torque that aligns the particle orientation with its velocity, while the second drives individual particles along…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-11-14 Marco Musacchio , Alexander P. Antonov , Hartmut Löwen , Lorenzo Caprini

We consider the dynamics of relativistic spin-half particles in quantum graphs with transparent branching points. The system is modeled by combining the quantum graph concept with the one of transparent boundary conditions applied to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 J. R. Yusupov , K. K. Sabirov , Q. U. Asadov , M. Ehrhardt , D. U. Matrasulov

We use a superspin Hamiltonian defined on an infinite-dimensional Fock space with positive definite scalar product to study localization and delocalization of noninteracting spinless quasiparticles in quasi-one-dimensional quantum wires…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-02 Andreas P. Schnyder , Christopher Mudry , Ilya A. Gruzberg

We consider the motion of a harmonically trapped overdamped particle, which is submitted to a self-phoretic force, that is proportional to the gradient of a diffusive field for which the particle itself is the source. In agreement with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-23 A. Alexandre , L. Anderson , T. Collin-Dufresne , T. Guérin , D. S. Dean

We study wavepackets that propagate across (a) topological interfaces in quantum spin systems exhibiting non-invertible symmetries and (b) duality defects coupling dual theories. We demonstrate that the transmission is always perfect, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-25 Atsushi Ueda , Vic Vander Linden , Laurens Lootens , Jutho Haegeman , Paul Fendley , Frank Verstraete

The motion of fast electrons through the crystal during axial channeling could be regular and chaotic. The dynamical chaos in quantum systems manifests itself in both statistical properties of energy spectra and morphology of wave functions…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 N. F. Shul'ga , V. V. Syshchenko , A. I. Tarnovsky , I. I. Solovyev , A. Yu. Isupov

We study quantum percolation which is described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian containing only off-diagonal hopping terms that are generally in quenched binary disorder (zero or one). In such a system, transmission of a quantum particle is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-09-20 Md Fhokrul Islam , Hisao Nakanishi

We study formation and evolution of the electron wave-packets in the process of strong field ionization of various atomic targets. Our study is based on reformulating the problem in terms of conditional amplitudes, i.e., the amplitudes…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 I. A. Ivanov , A. S. Kheifets , Kyung Taec Kim

Atomic wave packets in optical lattices which are both spatially finite and time-dependent exhibit many striking similarities with light pulses in photonic crystals. We analytically characterize the transmission properties of such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 T Lauber , P Massignan , G Birkl , A Sanpera

We analyze the energy spectrum of graphene in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and a unidirectionally periodic Zeeman field, focusing on the stability and location of Dirac points it may support. It is found that the Dirac points at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Luis Brey , A. R. Carvalho , H. A. Fertig

Motivated by the conduction properties of graphene discovered and studied in the last decades, we consider the quantum dynamics of a massless, charged, spin 1/2 relativistic particle in three dimensional space-time, in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Ivan Morales , Bruno Neves , Zui Oporto , Olivier Piguet

Nodal-line semimetals are topological phases where the conduction and the valence bands cross each other along one-dimensional lines in the Brillouin zone, which are symmetry protected by either spatial symmetries or time-reversal symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-01 R. Flores-Calderón , Leonardo Medel , A. Martín-Ruiz

Quantum Phase slips are dual process of particle tunneling in coherent networks. Besides to be of central interest for condensed matter physics, quantum phase slips are resources that are sought to be manipulated in quantum circuits. Here,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-14 Axel Pérez-Obiol , Juan Polo , Luigi Amico

It is demonstrated that in contrast to the well-known case with a quantum particle moving freely in a real line, the wave packets corresponding to the coherent states for a free quantum particle on a circle do not spread but develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Kowalski , J. Rembielinski

We investigate spectral properties of quantum graphs in the form of a periodic chain of rings with a connecting link between each adjacent pair, assuming that wave functions at the vertices are matched through conditions manifestly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-12 Marzieh Baradaran , Pavel Exner , Milos Tater

In this paper, we establish the existence of Stokes waves with piecewise smooth vorticity in a two-dimensional, infinitely deep fluid domain. These waves represent traveling water waves propagating over sheared currents in a semi-infinite…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Changfeng Gui , Jun Wang , Wen Yang , Yong Zhang

We study the effect of splitting and zitterbewegung of 1D and 2D electron wave packets in the semiconductor quantum well under the influence of the Rashba spin orbit coupling. Results of our investigations show that the spin orbit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , G. M. Maksimova , E. V. Frolova

We carry out both the tight-binding model and the $ab\ initio$ to study the layered silicene, the spin, valley, sublattice degrees of freedom are taken into consider and the effects of electric field, magnetic field, and even the light in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-06 Chen-Huan Wu