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Physics is a model of nature able to both describe and predict the results of measurements made with respect to reference systems. These reference systems, in turn, are themselves physical and thus subject to the laws of physics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-05 Henrique A. R. Knopki , Renato M. Angelo

Walking droplets are millimetric fluid drops that propel themselves across a vibrated liquid bath through interaction with their self-generated waves. They constitute classical active wave-particle entities and exhibit a range of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-06 Titir Mukherjee , Rahil N Valani , Soumitro Banerjee

Chemical control of the spontaneous motion of a reactive oil droplet moving on a glass substrate under an aqueous phase is reported. Experimental results show that the self-motion of an oil droplet is confined on an acid-treated glass…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Yutaka Sumino , Masaharu Nagayama , Hiroyuki Kitahata , Shin-ichiro M. Nomura , Nobuyuki Magome , Yoshihito Mori , Kenichi Yoshikawa

We simulate the mesoscopic dynamics of droplets formed by phase separated fluids at nanometer scales where thermal fluctuations are significant. Both spherical droplets fully immersed in a second fluid and sessile droplets which are also in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-18 John B. Bell , Andrew Nonaka , Alejandro L. Garcia

Motivated by recent developments of hydrodynamical quantum mechanical analogs [J. W. M. Bush, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 47, 269-292 (2015)] we provide a relativistic model for a classical particle coupled to a scalar wave-field through a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Pierre Jamet , Aurélien Drezet

In contrast to classical physics, quantum mechanics divides particles into two classes-bosons and fermions-whose exchange statistics dictate the dynamics of systems at a fundamental level. In two dimensions quasi-particles known as 'anyons'…

Quantum mechanics is able to predict challenging behaviors even in the simplest physical scenarios. These behaviors are possible because of the important dynamical role that phase plays in the evolution of quantum systems, and are very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 A. S. Sanz

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…

We develop a data-driven characterization of the pilot-wave hydrodynamic system in which a bouncing droplet self-propels along the surface of a vibrating bath. We consider drop motion in a confined one-dimensional geometry, and apply the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-14 J. Nathan Kutz , Andre Nachbin , Peter J. Baddoo , John W. M. Bush

The standard quantum mechanical harmonic oscillator has an exact, dual relationship with a completely classical system: a classical particle running along a circle. Duality here means that there is a one-to-one relation between all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Gerard t Hooft

We discuss the hydrodynamic representation of a wide class of quantum media exhibiting similar elementary excitations and dispersion properties. The representation covers quantum systems characterized by any type of (long-range)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Kamel Ourabah

Garc\'ia-Aguilar et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett 126, 038001 (2021)] have shown that the deformations of "shape-shifting droplets" are consistent with an elastic model, that, unlike previous models, includes the intrinsic curvature of the frozen…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-30 Pierre A. Haas , Raymond E. Goldstein , Diana Cholakova , Nikolai Denkov , Stoyan K. Smoukov

This letter highlights the entropy exchange phenomenon in a coupled binary inter-correlating system following Haldane's non-linear statistical correlation. A unique coupling between a classical and a quantum-like system at the marginal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-22 Projesh Kumar Roy

Periodically driven quantum systems can be used to realize quantum pumps, ratchets, artificial gauge fields and novel topological states of matter. Starting from the Keldysh approach, we develop a formalism, the Floquet-Boltzmann equation,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-16 Maximilian Genske , Achim Rosch

Fluctuation Theorems are central in stochastic thermodynamics, as they allow for quantifying the irreversibility of single trajectories. Although they have been experimentally checked in the classical regime, a practical demonstration in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 C. Elouard , N. K. Bernardes , A. R. R. Carvalho , M. F. Santos , A. Auffèves

Quantum droplets are formed in quantum many-body systems when the competition of quantum corrections with the mean-field interaction yields a stable self-bound quantum liquid. We predict the emergence of a quantum droplet when a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-08 Leon Mixa , Milan Radonjić , Axel Pelster , Michael Thorwart

In applications of mechanics, including quantum mechanics, we often consider complex systems, where complete solutions of the underlying "fundamental" equations is both impractical and unnecessary to describe appropriate observations…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Dai Jin , Antti J. Niemi , Xubiao Peng , Frank Wilczek

Place a droplet of mineral oil on water and the oil will spread to cover the water surface in a thin film -- a phenomenon familiar to many, owing to the rainbow-faced puddles left behind leaking buses on rainy days. In this paper we study…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-01 Callum Cuttle , Alice B. Thompson , Draga Pihler-Puzović , Anne Juel

Bohmian mechanics provides an explanation of quantum phenomena in terms of point particles guided by wave functions. This review focuses on the formalism of non-relativistic Bohmian mechanics, rather than its interpretation. Although the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 A. Benseny , G. Albareda , A. S. Sanz , J. Mompart , X. Oriols

Quantum mechanics states that a particle emitted at point (x_1,t_1) and detected at point (x_2,t_2) does not travel along a definite path between the two points. This conclusion arises essentially from the analysis of the two-slit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Galvan