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Theoretical and numerical studies of wave-packet propagation are presented to analyze the time varying 2D mode structures of electrostatic fluctuations in tokamak plasmas, using general flux coordinates. Instead of solving the 2D wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Z. X. Lu , F. Zonca , A. Cardinali

Based on a proposed classical explanation, the quantum mechanical "decay of the wave packet" is shown to simply result from sub-quantum diffusion with a specific diffusivity varying in time due to a particle's changing thermal environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Siegfried Fussy , Herbert Schwabl , Gerhard Groessing

Two-surface wave decay (TSWD), i.e. the parametric excitation of electron surface waves, was recently proposed as an absorption mechanism in the interaction of ultrashort, intense laser pulses with solid targets. We present an extension of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Macchi , M. Battaglini , F. Cattani , F. Cornolti

We analyze wavepacket propagation in traveling wave tubes (TWTs) analytically and numerically. TWT design in essence comprises a pencil-like electron beam in vacuum interacting with an electromagnetic wave guided by a slow-wave structure…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Kasra Rouhi , Filippo Capolino , Alexander Figotin

The wave nature of matter remains one of the most striking aspects of quantum mechanics. Since its inception, a wealth of experiments has demonstrated the interference, diffraction or scattering of massive particles. More recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Joris Verstraten , Kunlun Dai , Maxime Dixmerias , Bruno Peaudecerf , Tim de Jongh , Tarik Yefsah

This paper introduces the Wide-band Asp-Clean (\texttt{WAsp}) algorithm, a novel scale-sensitive image reconstruction method tailored for wide-band imaging applications. This algorithm is particularly beneficial for thermal noise-limited…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-27 M. Hsieh , S. Bhatnagar , U. Rau

The next generations of wireless networks are envisioned to integrate communications, sensing, and computing into a unified platform, demanding ultra-high data rates, submillisecond latency, and unprecedented energy efficiency. However,…

A pulse of matter waves may dramatically change its shape when traversing an absorbing barrier with time-dependent transparency. Here we show that this effect can be utilized for controlled manipulation of spatially-localized quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-04 Arseni Goussev

It is shown that under certain dynamical conditions a material wave packet displays coherent, non-dispersive accelerated evolution in gravitational field over a modulated atomic mirror. The phenomenon takes place as a consequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 Farhan Saif , Khalid Naseer , Muhammad Ayub

We present a theoretical and numerical study of resonant surface-plasmon (SP) excitation driven by the beating of two co-propagating laser pulses on a smooth cylindrical plasma-vacuum interface. Analytical expressions for the SP dispersion…

Recently it has been recognized that electronic conical intersections in molecular systems can be induced by laser light even in diatomics. As is known a direct consequence of these accidental degeneracies is the appearence of nonadiabatic…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-10-30 Gábor J. Halász , Ágnes Vibók , Nimrod Moiseyev , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We develop a computing framework that leverages wave propagation within an interconnected network, where nodes and edges possess wave manipulation capabilities, such as frequency mixing or time delay. This computing paradigm can not only…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yunwen Liu , Jiang Xiao

Matter-wave interferometry with molecules is intriguing both because it demonstrates a fundamental quantum phenomenon and because it opens avenues to quantum-enhanced measurements in physical chemistry. One great challenge in such…

WavePacket is an open-source program package for numeric simulations in quantum dynamics. It can solve time-independent or time-dependent linear Schr\"odinger and Liouville-von Neumann-equations in one or more dimensions. Also coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-09 Burkhard Schmidt , Carsten Hartmann

Photoacoustic imaging develops very fast in recent years due to its superior performance in many preclinical and clinical applications. However, it is still in a developing stage, and a lot of experiments have to be performed in a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Jiadong Zhang , Tengbo Lyu , Changchun Yang , Yimeng Yang , Shanshan Guo , Feng Gao , Fei Gao

Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides a unique and direct way to explore the real-time nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons and holes. The formal theory of the spectral function evolution requires inclusion of electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-09 Thomas Blommel , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Vojtěch Vlček

Recently, warm dense matter (WDM) has emerged as an interdisciplinary field that draws increasing interest in plasma physics, condensed matter physics, high pressure science, astrophysics, inertial confinement fusion, as well as materials…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Ng , T. Ao , F. Perrot , M. W. C. Dharma-wardana , M. E. Foord

We introduce a simple and efficient algorithm for diffusion in smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations and apply it to the problem of chemical mixing. Based on the concept of turbulent diffusion, we link the diffusivity of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Thomas H. Greif , Simon C. O. Glover , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen

We consider a laser induced molecular excitation process as a decay of a single energy state into a continuum. The analytic results based on Weisskopf-Wigner approach and perturbation calculations are compared with numerical wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Asta Paloviita , Kalle-Antti Suominen , Stig Stenholm

By performing two parallel numerical experiments -- solving the dynamical Hamiltonian equations and solving the Hasselmann kinetic equation -- we examined the applicability of the theory of weak turbulence to the description of the time…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2011-01-04 V. E. Zakharov , A. O. Korotkevich , A. Pushkarev , D. Resio