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Floquet states can be realized in quantum systems driven by continuous time-periodic perturbations. It is known that a state known as the Floquet Weyl semimetal can be realized when free Dirac fermions are placed in a rotating electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Koji Hashimoto , Shunichiro Kinoshita , Keiju Murata , Takashi Oka

The collinear eZe configuration of helium, with the electrons on opposite sides of the nucleus, is studied in the presence of an external electromagnetic (laser or microwave) field. We show that the classically unstable "asymmetric stretch"…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Schlagheck , Detlef Pingel , Peter Schmelcher

Quantum corrections to electron dynamics in a circularly polarized electromagnetic field are found within the Floquet theory of periodically driven quantum systems. It is demonstrated that emission of photons by an electron rotating under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 O. V. Kibis

Quantum systems driven by a time-periodic field are a platform of condensed matter physics where effective (quasi)stationary states, termed "Floquet states", can emerge with external-field-dressed quasiparticles during driving. They appear,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Naoto Tsuji

Nuclear quantum effects (NQE) tend to generate delocalized molecular dynamics due to the inclusion of the zero point energy and its coupling with the anharmonicities in interatomic interactions. Here, we present evidence that NQE often…

Kinetic equations governing time evolution of positions and momenta of atoms in extended systems are derived using quantum-classical ensembles within the Non-Equilibrium Statistical Operator Method (NESOM). Ions are treated classically,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu Wang , Lev Kantorovich

A resonantly excited coherent phonon leads to a periodic oscillation of the atomic lattice in a crystal structure bringing the material into a non-equilibrium electronic configuration. Periodically oscillating quantum systems can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-31 Hannes Hübener , Umberto De Giovannini , Angel Rubio

We provide an analytical solution for the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation for a two-dimensional active Brownian particle trapped in an isotropic harmonic potential. Using the passive Brownian particle as basis states we show that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-11 Michele Caraglio , Thomas Franosch

Molecular adsorbates on metal surfaces exchange energy with substrate phonons and low-lying electron-hole pair excitations. In the limit of weak coupling, electron-hole pair excitations can be seen as exerting frictional forces on…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-28 Reinhard J. Maurer , Mikhail Askerka , Victor S. Batista , John C. Tully

Floquet (periodically driven) systems can give rise to unique non-equilibrium phases of matter without equilibrium analogs. The most prominent example is the realization of discrete time crystals. An intriguing question emerges: what other…

Stokes parameter formalism is applied to show the analogies between the motion of an asymmetric Foucault pendulum and several phenomena known from optics and atomic physics. Nonlinearity-induced precession of elliptical orbits of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 T. Opatrny , P. Stepanek

Understanding how electrolyte solutions behave out of thermal equilibrium is a long-standing endeavor in many areas of chemistry and biology. Although mean-field theories are widely used to model the dynamics of electrolytes, it is also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-11 Saeed Mahdisoltani , Ramin Golestanian

A study of the non-dissipative Brownian motion in vacuum is presented. The noise source associated to the stochastic process assumed in this work is vacuum fluctuations of some quantum field capable of interact with a massive particle. For…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. A. Figueiredo

Radiation force in Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac equation is revisited for possible signature of irreversible action in the dynamics. The analysis shows that the classical electron can dissipate out a certain fraction of field energy that…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 D. Das

A primer on the Floquet theory of periodically time-dependent quantum systems is provided, and it is shown how to apply this framework for computing the quasienergy band structure governing the dynamics of ultracold atoms in driven optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-30 Martin Holthaus

The nonequilibrium Fokker-Planck dynamics with a non-conservative drift field, in dimension $N\geq 2$, can be related with the non-Hermitian quantum mechanics in a real scalar potential $V$ and in a purely imaginary vector potential -$iA$…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-31 P. Garbaczewski , M. Żaba

Nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations endowed with curl drift forces are investigated. The conditions under which these evolution equations admit stationary solutions, which are $q$-exponentials of an appropriate potential function, are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. S. Wedemann , A. R. Plastino , C. Tsallis

Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions (FDQPTs) reveal many nonequilibrium critical phenomena in periodically driven quantum systems, and their underlying mechanisms have attracted deep attention in recent years. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Wen-Hui Nie , Mei-Yu Zhang , Lin-Cheng Wang , Chong Li

We formulate a semiclassical theory for electron transport in open quantum systems with electron-phonon interactions adequate for situations when the system's phonon dynamics is comparable with the electron transport timescale. Starting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Maicol A. Ochoa

Recent advances in laser technology now enable engineering the electronic structure of matter through strong light-matter interactions. However, the effective physicochemical properties of these laser-dressed nonequilibrium materials are…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-25 Vishal Tiwari , Bing Gu , Ignacio Franco