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We begin the Article with confusing citations in published papers on the question recently: how much time does a wave packet spend in a tunnelling barrier? ..a particle tunnelling through a barrier appears to do so in zero time 1. .. The…

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The propagation of surface electromagnetic waves along a uniform magnetic field is studied in a quantum electron-hole semiconductor plasma. A new forward propagating mode, not reported before, is found by the effect of quantum tunneling,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 A. P. Misra

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a plasma is reported. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon scattering is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lennart Stenflo , Gert Brodin , Mattias Marklund , Padma K. Shukla

We consider the interaction of a weak gravitational wave with electromagnetic fields in a thin plasma on a Minkowski background spacetime using the 1+3 orthonormal frame formalism. Because gravitational and electromagnetic waves satisfy the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mattias Marklund , Gert Brodin , Peter Dunsby

Hydrogen atoms penetrating deep inside high-temperature magnetically confined plasmas by repetitive charge-exchange collisions result in a particle source, which affects the plasma performance significantly. In this \textit{Letter}, we…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Keisuke Fujii , Masahiro Hasuo , Motoshi Goto , Jeremy D. Lore

The time-frequency integrals and the two-dimensional stationary phase method are applied to study the electromagnetic waves radiated by moving modulated sources in dispersive media. We show that such unified approach leads to explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-11 Gennadiy Burlak , Vladimir Rabinovich

The plasma emission process, which is the mechanism for solar type II and type III radio bursts phenomena, is studied by means of particle-in-cell and weak turbulence simulation methods. By plasma emission, it is meant as a loose…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Sang-Yun Lee , L. F. Ziebell , P. H. Yoon , R. Gaelzer , E. S. Lee

The interstellar medium is a multi-phase, magnetized, and highly turbulent medium. In this paper, we address both theoretical and observational aspects of plasma turbulence in the interstellar medium. We successively consider radio wave…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-19 Katia Ferriere

Contribution of plasma oscillation to the broadband terahertz emission is revealed by interacting two-color laser pulses with a supersonic jet of nitrogen molecules. Temporal and spectral shifts of THz waves are observed as the plasma…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Na Li , Ya Bai , Tianshi Miao , Peng Liu , Ruxin Li , Zhizhan Xu

The single graphene layer is a novel material consisting of a flat monolayer of carbon atoms packed in a two-dimensional honeycomb-lattice, in which the electron dynamics is governed by the Dirac equation. A pseudo-spin phase-space approach…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 O. Morandi , F. Schuerrer

A large number of wave modes exist in a magnetized plasma. Their properties are determined by the interaction of particles and waves. In a simulation code, the correct treatment of field quantities and particle behavior is essential to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Patrick Kilian , Patricio A. Muñoz , Cedric Schreiner , Felix Spanier

How much time does a wave packet spent in tunneling a barrier? Quantum mechanical calculations result in zero time inside a barrier. In the nineties analogous tunneling experiments with microwaves were carried out confirming quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-17 Guenter Nimtz

The dispersive effects of vacuum polarization on the propagation of a strong circularly polarized electromagnetic wave through a cold collisional plasma are studied analytically. It is found that, due to the singular dielectric features of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-01 A. Di Piazza , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

The atomic motion controls important features of materials, such as thermal transport, phase transitions, and vibrational spectra. However, the simulation of ionic dynamics is exceptionally challenging when quantum fluctuations are relevant…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-25 Antonio Siciliano , Lorenzo Monacelli , Giovanni Caldarelli , Francesco Mauri

We calculate the tunneling process of a Dirac particle across two square barriers separated a distance $d$, as well as the scattering by a double cusp barrier where the centers of the cusps are separated a distance larger than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Victor M. Villalba , Luis Gonzalez-Arraga

When turbulent structures split more frequently before they decay, persistent turbulence forms in neutral fluid shear flows. Whether this concept can be extended to linear magnetized plasmas is investigated here and compared to the behavior…

In this paper we study the tunneling using a background independent (polymer) quantization scheme. We show that at low energies, for the tunneling through a single potential barrier, the polymer transmission coefficient and the polymer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 A. Martín-Ruiz , E. Chan-López , A. Carbajal-Domínguez , J. Bernal

The general and explicit relation between the phase time and the dwell time for quantum tunneling or scattering is investigated. Considering a symmetrical collision of two identical wave packets with an one-dimensional barrier, here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex E. Bernardini

Polarizability tensor of a strongly magnetized plasma and the polarization vectors and opacities of normal electromagnetic waves are studied for the conditions typical of neutron star atmospheres, taking account of partial ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Y. Potekhin , Dong Lai , G. Chabrier , W. C. G. Ho

Time-dependent analytical solutions to Schr\"{o}dinger's equation with quantum shutter initial conditions are used to investigate the issue of the tunneling time of forerunners in rectangular potential barriers. By using a time-frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gaston Garcia-Calderon , Jorge Villavicencio