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Macroscopic quantum tunneling is described using the master equation for the reduced Wigner function of an open quantum system at zero temperature. Our model consists of a particle trapped in a cubic potential interacting with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Esteban Calzetta , Enric Verdaguer

The properties of the forced oscillations of electron-positron plasma (EPP) generated from vacuum under the action of a short laser pulse are considered. Calculating the density of the conduction and polarization currents within the quantum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 I. A. Aleksandrov , A. D. Panferov , S. A. Smolyansky

Some essential features of the ion plasma wave in both kinetic and fluid descriptions are presented. The wave develops at wavelengths shorter than the electron Debye radius. Thermal motion of electrons at this scale is such that they…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-04-07 J. Vranjes , M. Kono

We show that arrival times for electromagnetic pulses measured through the rate of absorption in an ideal impedance matched detector are equivalent to the arrival times using the average flow of optical energy as proposed by Peatross {\it…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Lipsa Nanda , Aakash Basu , S. Anantha Ramakrishna

Negative refraction is a peculiar wave propagation phenomenon that occurs when a wave crosses a boundary between a regular medium and a medium with both constitutive parameters negative at the given frequency. The phase and group velocities…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-23 Or Lasri , Lea Sirota

We use advanced statistical tools of time-series analysis to characterize the dynamical complexity of the transition to optical wave turbulence in a fibre laser. Ordinal analysis and the horizontal visibility graph applied to the…

It is not fully understood how electromagnetic waves propagate through plasma density fluctuations when the size of the fluctuations is comparable with the wavelength of the incident radiation. In this paper, the perturbing effect of a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Alf Köhn , Eberhard Holzhauer , Jarrod Leddy , Matthew B Thomas , Roddy G L Vann

Formulas for transverse conductance and dielectric permeability in quantum non-degenerate and Maxwellian collisional plasma with arbitrary variable collision frequency in Mermin's approach are deduced. Frequency of collisions of particles…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-02-19 A. V. Latyshev , A. A. Yushkanov

Plasmas with electromagnetic fields turbulent at sub-Larmor-scales are a feature of a wide variety of high-energy-density environments, and are essential to the description of many astrophysical/laboratory plasma phenomena. Radiation from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Brett D. Keenan , Alexander L. Ford , Mikhail V. Medvedev

The Gouy phase is essential for accurately describing various wave phenomena, ranging from classical electromagnetic waves to matter waves and quantum optics. In this work, we employ phase-space methods based on the cross-Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Lucas S. Marinho , Pedro R. Dieguez , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Irismar G. da Paz

The Wigner function formalism has been applied to the analysis of elastic scattering processes. The new element of known formalism is the choice of the phase space on which the Wigner function is defined. This phase space is 4-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-09 I. Perevalova , M. Polyakov , O. Soldatenko , A. Vall

Tunneling ionization of an atom in ultrashort laser pulses is considered. When the driving laser pulse is switched-on and -off with a steep slope, the photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) shows an edge-effect because of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 M. Klaiber , Q. Z. Lv , K. Z. Hatsagortsyan , C. H. Keitel

The response time of the electron to light in photoemission is difficult to define and measure. Tunneling ionization of atoms, a strong-laser-induced photoemission process, provides a semiclassical case for visiting the problem. Here, we…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 C. Chen , J. Y. Che , W. Y. Li , S. Wang , X. J. Xie , J. Y. Huang , Y. G. Peng , G. G. Xin , Y. J. Chen

A new category of plasma emerged at the end of the 1970s. It consists of a column of plasma maintained by the electric field component of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave (MW) waves that propagate at the interface between the outer surface…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Michel Moisan

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas, where the wave frequency, $\omega_0$, is much larger than the plasma frequency, $\omega_{\rm P}$. We show that in pair plasmas nonlinear effects are weak for $a_0 \ll…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Masanori Iwamoto , Lorenzo Sironi , Tsvi Piran

This work considers uncertainty relations on time frequency distributions from a signal processing viewpoint. An uncertainty relation on the marginalizable time frequency distributions is given. A result from quantum mechanics is used on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Eren Berk Kama , Mustafa Kuzuoğlu

The self-consistent description of Langmuir wave and ion-sound wave turbulence in the presence of an electron beam is presented for inhomogeneous non-isothermal plasmas. Full numerical solutions of the complete set of kinetic equations for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 E. P. Kontar , H. L. Pecseli

Frequency upconversion of an electromagnetic wave can occur in ionized plasma with decreasing electric permittivity and in split-ring resonator-structure metamaterials with decreasing magnetic permeability. We develop a general theory to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-08-14 Kenan Qu , Qing Jia , Matthew R. Edwards , Nathaniel J. Fisch

The relation of particle transport of relativistic particles in plasmas with high-amplitude isotropic sub-Larmor-scale magnetic turbulence to the spectra of radiation simultaneously produced by these particles is investigated both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-16 Brett D. Keenan , Mikhail V. Medvedev

The phase diagram of quantum electron bilayers in zero magnetic field is obtained using density functional theory. For large electron densities the system is in the liquid phase, while for smaller densities the liquid may freeze (Wigner…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Goldoni , F. M. Peeters