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We present a renewed wave-packet analysis based on the following ideas: if a quantum one-particle scattering process and the corresponding state are described by an indivisible wave packet to move as a whole at all stages of scattering,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

The energy density spectrum is an observable of gravitational waves. Divergence has appeared in the energy density spectra of the scalar induced gravitational waves for different gauge fixings. To resolve the discrepancy, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-06 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Qing-Hua Zhu

A fast and accurate algorithm for the computation of Gauss-Hermite and generalized Gauss-Hermite quadrature nodes and weights is presented. The algorithm is based on Newton's method with carefully selected initial guesses for the nodes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-21 Alex Townsend , Thomas Trogdon , Sheehan Olver

We propose a polymer quantization scheme to derive the effective propagation of gravitational waves on a classical Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) spacetime. These waves, which may originate from a high energy source, are a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-07 Angel Garcia-Chung , James B. Mertens , Saeed Rastgoo , Yaser Tavakoli , Paulo Vargas Moniz

A unitary operator which relates the system of a particle in a linear potential with time-dependent parameters to that of a free particle, has been given. This operator, closely related to the one which is responsible for the existence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dae-Yup Song

We consider the superposition of plane waves and localized wave packets. This kind of wave function can result from a local excitation of a particle described by a plane wave. For charged particles, the wave packet means a current, the time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-08 Istvan Magashegyi , Katalin Oltyan , Peter Foldi

The Hartle-Hawking and Tunneling (Vilenkin) wave functions are treated in the Hamiltonian formalism. We find that the leading (i.e. quadratic) terms in the fluctuations around a maximally symmetric background, are indeed Gaussian (rather…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 S. P. de Alwis

Time-slicing has emerged as a strategy for incorporating semiclassical propagation into real-time path integral formulation and recovering full quantum dynamics. A central step is the decomposition of a time-evolved wave function into a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Rahul Sharma , Amartya Bose

The density of states for a particle moving in a random potential with a Gaussian correlator is calculated exactly using the functional integral technique. It is achieved by expressing the functional degrees of freedom in terms of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 O. K. Vorov , A. V. Vagov

Gaussian unitary transformations are generated by quadratic Hamiltonians, i.e., Hamiltonians containing quadratic terms in creations and annihilation operators, and are heavily used in many areas of quantum physics, ranging from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Tommaso Guaita , Lucas Hackl , Thomas Quella

The Fourier transforms of Laguerre functions play the same canonical role in wavelet analysis as do the Hermite functions in Gabor analysis. We will use them as analyzing wavelets in a similar way the Hermite functions were recently by K.…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luis Daniel Abreu

We show in the framework of a tractable model that revivals and fractional revivals of wave packets afford clear signatures of the extent of departure from coherence and from Poisson statistics of the matter wave field in a Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sudheesh , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan

As an appropriate analog of the Euclidean short-time Fourier transform, we study a windowed version of the Helgason-Fourier transform on the complex unit ball and translate the theory of modulation/coorbit spaces. As a result, atomic…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Mathias Ionescu-Tira

We present a simple, robust and black-box approach to the implementation and use of local, periodic, atom-centered Gaussian basis functions within a plane wave code, in a computationally efficient manner. The procedure outlined is based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-21 George H. Booth , Theodoros Tsatsoulis , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Andreas Grüneis

Next-generation gravitational wave (GW) experiments will explore higher frequency ranges, where GW wavelengths approach the size of the detector itself. In this regime, GWs may be detected not just through the well-known mechanical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Lars Fischer , Tom Krokotsch , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

In this study, a numerical quadrature for the generalized inverse Gaussian distribution is derived from the Gauss-Hermite quadrature by exploiting its relationship with the normal distribution. The proposed quadrature is not Gaussian, but…

Computation · Statistics 2020-12-16 Jaehyuk Choi , Yeda Du , Qingshuo Song

Unbound wave packets propagating to macroscopic space and time coordinates become proportional to their (Fourier transform) momentum distribution at earlier times whereby the asymptotic coordinates and the initial momenta are connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 James M. Feagin , John S. Briggs

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a promising avenue for the discovery of new physics beyond general relativity as it probes extreme curvature and ultra-relativistic dynamics. However, in the absence of a compelling alternative to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Lachlan Passenger , Shun Yin Cheung , Nir Guttman , Nikhil Kannachel , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

Fourier and fractional-Fourier transformations are widely used in theoretical physics. In this paper we make quantum perspectives and generalization for the fractional Fourier transformation (FrFT). By virtue of quantum mechanical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Jun-Hua Chen , Hong-Yi Fan

In this study, we provide a novel wave packet propagation method that generalizes the Hagedorn approach by introducing alternative primitive basis sets that are better suited to describe different physical processes. More precisely, in our…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Rabiou Issa , Kokou Mawulonmi Robert Afansounoudji , Komi Sodoga , David Lauvergnat