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The diffusive transport of biased Brownian particles in a two-dimensional symmetric channel is investigated numerically considering both the no-flow and the reflection boundary conditions at the channel boundaries. Here, the geometrical…

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A Green's function formalism to analyze the scattering properties in confined geometries is developed. This includes scattering from a central field inside the guide created e.g. by impurities. For atomic collisions our approach applies to…

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We study spectral and scattering properties of a spinless quantum particle confined to an infinite planar layer with hard walls containing a finite number of point perturbations. A solvable character of the model follows from the explicit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-01-23 Pavel Exner , Katerina Nemcova

Diffusion-driven patterns appear on curved surfaces in many settings, initiated by unstable modes of an underlying Laplacian operator. On a flat surface or perfect sphere, the patterns are degenerate, reflecting translational/rotational…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-09 John R. Frank , Jemal Guven , Mehran Kardar , Leyna Shackleton

We study bidisperse colloidal suspensions confined within glass microcapillary tubes to model the glass transition in confined cylindrical geometries. We use high speed three-dimensional confocal microscopy to observe particle motions for a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-02-28 Nabiha Saklayen , Gary L. Hunter , Kazem V. Edmond , Eric R. Weeks

We show that controllable inhomogeneous coupling between two-level systems and a common data bus provides a fast mechanism to produce multipartite entanglement. Our proposal combines resonant interactions and engineering of coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 C. E. López , F. Lastra , G. Romero , E. Solano , J. C. Retamal

We study the unidirectional transport of two-particle quantum wavepackets in a regular one-dimensional lattice. We show that the bound-pair state component behaves differently from unbound states when subjected to an external pulsed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 A. R. C. Buarque , W. S. Dias

In this paper, we investigate the Schr\"odinger equation in a three-dimensional helically twisted space characterized by a non-trivial torsion parameter. By applying exact separation of variables, we derive the radial equation governing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Frankbelson dos S. Azevedo , Faizuddin Ahmed , Edilberto O. Silva

We study the localization of particles rotating in a two-dimensional harmonic potential by solving their rotational spectrum using many-particle quantum mechanics and comparing the result to that obtained with quantizing the rigid rotation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -P. Nikkarila , M. Manninen

We investigate the effect on the entanglement dynamics of an impurity moving at constant velocity in a closed quantum system. We focus on one-dimensional strongly-correlated lattice models, both in the presence of integrable and chaotic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-04 Andrea De Luca , Alvise Bastianello

We study the effect of spatial confinement on the strength of propulsive diffusiophoretic forces acting on a particle that generates density gradients by exploiting the chemical free energy of its environment. Using a recently proposed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-17 M. N. Popescu , S. Dietrich , G. Oshanin

We consider the behaviour of quantum Hall edges away from the Luttinger liquid fixed point that occurs in the low energy, large system limit. Using the close links between quantum Hall wavefunctions and conformal field theories we construct…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-07 Richard Fern , Roberto Bondesan , Steven H. Simon

Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Lars Meschede , Benjamin Schwager , Dominik Schulz , Jamal Berakdar

Quantum embedding theories are promising approaches to investigate strongly-correlated electronic states of active regions of large-scale molecular or condensed systems. Notable examples are spin defects in semiconductors and insulators. We…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 He Ma , Nan Sheng , Marco Govoni , Giulia Galli

We investigate the previously unexplored quantum dynamics of non-relativistic, spinless particles propagating in curved spaces with torsion. Our findings demonstrate that while torsion has been predominantly associated with spin, it can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Tomoi Koide , Armin van de Venn

We study the transport of a quantum particle through square lattices of various sizes by employing the tight-binding Hamiltonian from quantum percolation. Input and output semi-infinite chains are attached to the lattice either by diagonal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Cuansing , H. Nakanishi

In periodic quantum systems which are both homogeneously tilted and driven, the interplay between drive and Bloch oscillations controls transport dynamics. Using a quantum gas in a modulated optical lattice, we show experimentally that…

The complex unit appearing in the equations of quantum mechanics is generalised to a quaternionic structure on spacetime, leading to the consideration of complex quantum mechanical particles whose dynamical behaviour is governed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. P. Brumby , G. C. Joshi

Using molecular dynamics simulations we study the slow dynamics of a colloidal fluid annealed within a matrix of obstacles quenched from an equilibrated colloidal fluid. We choose all particles to be of the same size and to interact as hard…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-10-29 Jan Kurzidim , Daniele Coslovich , Gerhard Kahl

The interaction between a high-frequency dilational mode of a thin dielectric film and an optical cavity field is studied theoretically in the membrane-in-the-middle setup. A derivation from first principles leads to a multi-mode…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 K. Borkje , S. M. Girvin