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This papers presents a formalism describing the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional tilted time-dependent lattice. The description uses the Wannier-Stark states, which are localized in each site of the lattice and provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Quentin Thommen , Jean Claude Garreau , Veronique Zehnle

The time evolution of anharmonic molecular wave packets is investigated under the influence of the environment consisting of harmonic oscillators. These oscillators represent photon or phonon modes and assumed to be in thermal equilibrium.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter Foldi , Mihaly G. Benedict , Attila Czirjak , Balazs Molnar

We investigate theoretically a dilute stream of free quantum particles passing through a macroscopic circular aperture of matter-waves and then moving in a space at a finite temperature, taking into account the dissipative coupling with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-02 Jian-Ping Peng

Prompted by recent experimental developments, a theory of surface scattering of fast atoms at grazing incidence is developed. The theory gives rise to a quantum mechanical limit for ordered surfaces that describes coherent diffraction peaks…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 J. R. Manson , Hocine Khemliche , Philippe Roncin

We provide a complete and exact quantum description of coherent light scattering in a one-dimensional multi-mode transmission line coupled to a two-level emitter. Using recently developed scattering approach we discuss transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-07 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Vladimir Gritsev

The quantum average energy decay and the purity decay are studied for a system particle as a function of the number of constituents of a discrete bath model. The system particle is subjected to two distinct physical situations: the harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-02 M. D. Galiceanu , M. W. Beims , W. Strunz

Special relativity combined with the stochastic vacuum flux impact model lead to an explicit interpretation of many of the phenomena of elementary quantum mechanics. We examine characteristics of a repetitively impacted submicroscopic…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Herzenberg

The vast majority of the literature dealing with quantum dynamics is concerned with linear evolution of the wave function or the density matrix. A complete dynamical description requires a full understanding of the evolution of measured…

A quantum coherent capacitor subject to large amplitude pulse cycles can be made to emit or reabsorb an electron in each half cycle. Quantized currents with pulse cycles in the GHz range have been demonstrated experimentally. We develop a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-02-27 M. Moskalets , P. Samuelsson , M. Buttiker

It is shown that in the case of the one-particle one-dimensional scattering problem for a given time-independent potential, for each state of the whole quantum ensemble of identically prepared particles, there is an unique pair of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. L. Chuprikov

Quantum cosmology uses a wave function to model the universe, but finding solutions for this poses a problem as it is difficult to define the boundary conditions or identify the correct path for a path integral. We begin the discussion by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Alisha Marriott-Best

Within the so-called scaled quantum theory, the standard bouncing ball problem is analyzed under the presence of a gravitational field and harmonic potential. In this framework, the quantum-classical transition of the density matrix is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artés

By controlling coefficients and decaying order of time-decaying harmonic potentials, the velocity of a quantum particle is decelerated by the effect of harmonic potentials but the particle is non-trapping. In this paper, we consider the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-17 Masaki Kawamoto

An optimal dynamical decoupling of a quantum system coupled to a noisy environment must take into account also the imperfections of the control pulses. We present a new formalism which describes, in a closed-form expression, the evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-19 Ido Almog , Gil Loewenthal , Jonathan Coslovsky , Yoav Sagi , Nir Davidson

The delay time associated with a scattering process is one of the most important dynamical aspects in quantum mechanics. A common measure of this is the Wigner delay time based on the group velocity description of a wave-packet, which my…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-31 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , Arun M. Jayannavar

We study the spreading of a quantum-mechanical wavepacket in a one-dimensional tight-binding model with a noisy potential, and analyze the emergence of classical diffusion from the quantum dynamics due to decoherence. We consider a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ariel Amir , Yoav Lahini , Hagai B. Perets

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics concerns the dynamics of 'walkers,' droplets walking on a vibrating bath, and has provided the basis for the burgeoning field of hydrodynamic quantum analogs. We here explore a theoretical model of pilot-wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-22 Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov , Davis J. Evans , Joel B. Been , John W. M. Bush

Metastable decay exhibits a familiar exponential regime bracketed by early-time deviations and late-time power-law tails. We adopt the real-time, flux-based definition of the decay rate in the spirit of Andreassen et al.\ direct method and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Tinglong Feng , Jesse Moes , Tomislav Prokopec

The dual wave-particle nature of quantum objects is a notoriously unintuitive feature of quantum theories. However, it is often deemed essential, due to quantum objects exhibiting diffraction and interference. We extend the work of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Geoff Beck

A new approach to quantum walks is presented. Considering a quantum system undergoing some unitary discrete-time evolution in a directed graph G, we think of the vertices of G as sites that are occupied by the quantum system, whose internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Chaobin Liu