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We study impurity-induced particle growth and scrambling in clean one-dimensional free-fermion systems. We show that a single local impurity can act as a branching source: particle or operator weight propagates coherently into the free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Qucheng Gao , Vikram Ravindranath , Xiao Chen

The use of atomically sized quantum systems as highly sensitive measuring devices represents an exciting and quickly growing research field. Here, we explore the properties of a quasiparticle formed by a mobile impurity interacting with a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-15 Ragheed Alhyder , Georg M. Bruun

Recent experimental realization of strongly imbalanced mixtures of ultracold atoms opens new possibilities for studying impurity dynamics in a controlled setting. We discuss how the techniques of atomic physics can be used to explore new…

We investigate the impacts of combination of fermion-fermion interactions and impurity scatterings on the low-energy stabilities of two-dimensional asymmetric materials with a quadratic band crossing point by virtue of the renormalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-09 Yao-Ming Dong , Ya-Hui Zhai , Dong-Xing Zheng , Jing Wang

This paper extends the previously reported theory of dissipation pathways [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 214111 (2024)] to incorporate off-diagonal subsystem-bath coupling, which is often required to model molecular systems where the environment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ignacio Gustin , Chang Woo Kim , Ignacio Franco

Interacting mixtures of bosons and fermions are ubiquitous in nature. They form the backbone of the standard model of physics, provide a framework for understanding quantum materials and are of technological importance in helium dilution…

We experimentally investigate the dynamics of synthetic active particles composed of gravitationally bouncing, superwalking droplets confined within an annular fluid bath. Driven by a topologically pumping dual-frequency waveform, the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-19 Rudra Sekhri , Rahil N. Valani , Tapio Simula

We explore the quantum dynamics of a one-dimensional trapped ultracold ensemble of bosonic atoms triggered by the sudden creation of a single ion. The numerical simulations are performed by means of the ab initio multiconfiguration…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-13 J. M. Schurer , A. Negretti , P. Schmelcher

We consider an impurity in a semi-infinite one-dimensional system of weakly-interacting bosons. We calculate the interaction potential for the impurity due to the end of the system, i.e., the wall. For local repulsive (attractive)…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-19 Benjamin Reichert , Aleksandra Petkovic , Zoran Ristivojevic

We study the correlation between an impurity and a small ensemble of bosonic particles in one dimension. Our study analyzes the one-body density matrix and calculates the corresponding von Neumann entanglement entropy as a function of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 M. A. García-March , A. S. Dehkharghani , N. T. Zinner

We overview the main features of mobile impurities moving in one-dimensional superfluid backgrounds by modeling it as a mobile Josephson junction, which leads naturally to the periodic dispersion of the impurity. The dissipation processes,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-06 Michael Schecter , Dimitri M. Gangardt , Alex Kamenev

We study a one-dimensional interacting quantum liquid hosting a pair of mobile impurities causing backscattering. We determine the effective retarded interaction between the two impurities mediated by the liquid. We show that for strong…

A droplet bouncing on the surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath can walk horizontally, guided by the waves it generates on each impact. This results in a self-propelled classical particle-wave entity. By using a one-dimensional…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rahil N. Valani , Anja C. Slim , David M. Paganin , Tapio P. Simula , Theodore Vo

We use the "generalized hierarchical equation of motion" proposed in Paper I to study decoherence in a system coupled to a spin bath. The present methodology allows a systematic incorporation of higher order anharmonic effects of the bath…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Chang-Yu Hsieh , Jianshu Cao

We present a theoretical study of the dynamical behavior of a gas made of ultracold fermionic atoms, which during their motions can collide with a much smaller number of thermal bosonic impurities. The atoms are confined inside harmonic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Capuzzi , P. Vignolo , F. Toschi , S. Succi , M. P. Tosi

The turbulent transport of impurity particles in plasma edge turbulence is investigated. The impurities are modeled as a passive fluid advected by the electric and polarization drifts, while the ambient plasma turbulence is modeled using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Priego , O. E. Garcia , V. Naulin , J. Juul Rasmussen

Damped-driven systems are ubiquitous in science, however the damping and driving mechanisms are often quite convoluted. This manuscript presents an experimental and theoretical investigation of a fluidic droplet on a vertically vibrating…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-12 Aminur Rahman

The quantum dynamics of a low-dimensional system in contact with a large but finite harmonic bath is theoretically investigated by coarse-graining the bath into a reduced set of effective energy states. In this model, the couplings between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Loïse Attal , Cyril Falvo , Florent Calvo , Pascal Parneix

Using time-dependent density functional theory, we study how density and size of impurities govern dissipation of persistent currents of fermionic superfluid rings in the BCS regime. The critical winding number for vortex emission increases…

The diffusion equation for nonequilibrium interstitial impurity atoms taking into account their charge states and drift of all mobile interstitial species in the built-in electric field and in the field of elastic stress was obtained. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 O. I. Velichko