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This is a review of the dynamics of wave propagation through a disordered N-mode waveguide in the localized regime. The basic quantities considered are the Wigner-Smith and single-mode delay times, plus the time-dependent power spectrum of…

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The covariant Dirac equation in Robertson-Walker space-time is studied under the comoving coordinates. The exact forms of the spatial factor of wave function are respectively acquired in closed, spatially flat, and open universes.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-Bing Huang

The presence of temporal correlations in random movement trajectories is a widespread phenomenon across biological, chemical and physical systems. The ubiquity of persistent and anti-persistent motion in many natural and synthetic systems…

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We follow the dynamics of nonlinear waves in two-dimensional disordered lattices with tunable nonlinearity. In the absence of nonlinear terms Anderson localization traps the packet in space. For the nonlinear case a destruction of Anderson…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-15 T. V. Laptyeva , J. D. Bodyfelt , S. Flach

We study the behavior of two-dimensional Dirac fermions in the presence of a static long-range-correlated random vector potential. By applying an exact path integral representation for the propagator of a spinor particle we obtain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. V. Khveshchenko , A. G. Yashenkin

Eigenfunctions of 1d disordered Hamiltonian with constant imaginary vector potential are investigated. Even within the domain of complex eigenvalues the wave functions are shown to be strongly localized. However, this localization is of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. G. Silvestrov

We consider a single particle which is bound by a central potential and obeys the Dirac equation in d dimensions. We first apply the asymptotic iteration method to recover the known exact solutions for the pure Coulomb case. For a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Hakan Ciftci , Richard L. Hall , Nasser Saad

The Coulomb interaction among massless Dirac fermions in graphene is unscreened around the isotropic Dirac points, causing a logarithmic velocity renormalization and a cone reshaping. In less symmetric Dirac materials possessing anisotropic…

Waves propagating in certain one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices are known to exhibit a sharp localization transition. We theoretically predict and experimentally observe that the localization of light in one-dimensional photonic…

We consider a randomly forced particle moving in a finite region, which rebounds inelastically with coefficient of restitution r on collision with the boundaries. We show that there is a transition at a critical value of r, r_c\equiv…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stephen J. Cornell , Michael R. Swift , Alan J. Bray

The massless Dirac fermions residing on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators are protected from backscattering and cannot be localized by disorder, but such protection can be lifted in ultrathin films when the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. A. Taskin , Satoshi Sasaki , Kouji Segawa , Yoichi Ando

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

We present evidence that recurrent spiral activity, long manifested in simulations of disk galaxies, results from the super-position of a few transient spiral modes. Each mode lasts between 5 and 10 rotations at its corotation radius where…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 J. A. Sellwood , R. G. Carlberg

First, we study a square fermionic lattice that supports the existence of massless Dirac fermions, where the Dirac points are protected by a hidden symmetry. We also consider two modified models with a staggered potential and the diagonal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-10 Jing-Min Hou

We discuss the diffusion phenomenon in the parabolic and hyperbolic regimes. New effects related to the finite velocity of the diffusion process are predicted, that can partially explain the strange behavior associated to adsorption…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-13 A. Sapora , M. Codegone , G. Barbero

The aim of this paper is to construct an explicit potential for the Dirac operator that has purely singular continuous spectrum. The characteristic trait of this potential is that it consists of bumps whose distance is growing rapidly. This…

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Radiative transfer equation in an accretion disk wind is examined analytically and numerically under the plane-parallel approximation in the subrelativistic regime of $(v/c)^1$, where $v$ is the wind vertical velocity. Emergent intensity is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jun Fukue

We study the motion of N=2 overdamped Brownian particles in gravitational interaction in a space of dimension d=2. This is equivalent to the simplified motion of two biological entities interacting via chemotaxis when time delay and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 P. H. Chavanis , R. Mannella

The motion of overdamped particles in a one-dimensional spatially-periodic potential is considered. The potential is also randomly-fluctuating in time, due to multiplicative colored noise terms, and has a deterministic tilt. Numerical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-06 James P. Gleeson

We consider the optical and transport properties in a model two-dimensional Hamiltonian which describes the merging of two Dirac points. At low energy, in the presence of an energy gap parameter $\Delta$, there are two distinct Dirac points…

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