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Since Berry's pioneering 1984 work, the separation of geometric and dynamic contributions in the {\it phase} of an evolving wave has become fundamental in physics, underpinning diverse phenomena in quantum mechanics, optics, and condensed…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-10 Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Zeyu Kuang , Stefan Rotter

Dynamic modulation of material properties in space and time enables powerful control over wave propagation, yet existing theories largely rely on idealized, nondispersive models. In realistic media, frequency dispersion can strongly reshape…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-02 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

We study the correlations of time delays in a model of chaotic resonance scattering based on the random matrix approach. Analytical formulae which are valid for arbitrary number of open channels and arbitrary coupling strength between…

chao-dyn · Physics 2015-06-24 N. Lehmann , D. V. Savin , V. V. Sokolov , H. -J. Sommers

This paper concerns time-dependent scattering theory and in particular the concept of time delay for a class of one-dimensional anisotropic quantum systems. These systems are described by a Schr\"{o}dinger Hamiltonian $H = -\Delta + V$ with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-05 W. O. Amrein , Philippe A. Jacquet

Within the framework of a Dirac bubble potential model for the C60 fullerene shell we investigated the angular time delay in slow-electron elastic scattering by C60 as well as average time delay of electrons in this process. It is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-03-16 M. Ya. Amusia , A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

The Wigner-Weyl transform and phase space formulation of a density matrix approach are applied to a non-Hermitian model which is quadratic in positions and momenta. We show that in the presence of a quantum environment or reservoir, mean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Ludmila Praxmeyer , Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

Using the concept of minimal chaotic cavities, we give the distribution of the proper delay times of $Q=-i\hbar S^\dagger \frac{\partial S}{\partial E}$ at the spectrum edge with a scattering matrix $S$ belonging to circular ensembles CE.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 Adel Abbout

Reaction-diffusion systems with time-delay defined on complex networks have been studied in the framework of the emergence of Turing instabilities. The use of the Lambert W-function allowed us get explicit analytic conditions for the onset…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-03 Julien Petit , Malbor Asllani , Duccio Fanelli , Ben Lauwens , Timoteo Carletti

A detailed analysis of the wave-mode structure in a bend and its incorporation into a stable algorithm for calculation of the scattering matrix of the bend is presented. The calculations are based on the modal approach. The stability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Horvat , Tomaz Prosen

The physics of waves in time-varying media provides numerous opportunities for wave control that are unattainable with static media. In particular, Floquet systems with a periodic time modulation are currently of considerable interest.…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-21 David Globosits , Jakob Hüpfl , Stefan Rotter

We identify the poles and zeros of the scattering matrix of a simple quantum graph by means of systematic measurement and analysis of Wigner, transmission, and reflection complex time delays. We examine the ring graph because it displays…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-24 Lei Chen , Steven M. Anlage

Perturbing resonant systems causes shifts in their associated scattering poles in the complex plane. In a previous study [arXiv: 2408.11360], we demonstrated that these shifts can be calculated numerically by analyzing the residue of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 Niall Byrnes , Matthew R. Foreman

By combining the definition of the Wigner distribution function (WDF) and the matrix method of optical system modeling, we can evaluate the transformation of the former in centered systems with great complexity. The effect of stops and lens…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. B. Almeida , V. Lakshminarayanan

We re-examine and correct an earlier derivation of the distribution of the Wigner phase delay time for wave reflection from a long one-dimensional disordered conductor treated in the continuum limit. We then numerically compare the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , N. Kumar

This paper provides a general framework for deriving effective material properties of one-dimensional, time-modulated systems of subwavelength resonators. It applies to subwavelength resonator systems with a general form of time-dependent…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Habib Ammari , Jinghao Cao , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Liora Rueff

In many physical situations the behavior of a quantum system is affected by interaction with a larger environment. We develop, using the method of influence functional, how to deduce the density matrix of the quantum system incorporating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Hotta , I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

The reflection and transmission of a few-cycle laser pulse impinging on two parallel thin metal layers have been analyzed. The two layers, with a thickness much smaller than the skin depth of the incoming radiation field, are represented by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-05-16 M. Polner , S. Varró , A. Vörös-Kiss

The waiting time distribution (WTD) is a common tool for analysing discrete stochastic processes in classical and quantum systems. However, there are many physical examples where the dynamics is continuous and only approximately discrete,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-17 Robert Gernert , Clive Emary , Sabine H. L. Klapp

Motivated by recent experiments, we consider a Schr\"{o}dinger cat superposition of two widely separated coherent states in thermal equilibrium. The time development of our system is obtained using Wigner distribution functions. In contrast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

A network of noisy bistable elements with global time-delayed couplings is considered. A dichotomous mean field model has recently been developed describing the collective dynamics in such systems with uniform time delays near the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniel Huber , Lev Tsimring