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The Exact Factorization framework is extended and utilized to introduce the electronic-states of correlated electron-photon systems. The formal definitions of an exact scalar potential and an exact vector potential that account for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Ali Abedi , Elham Khosravi , Ilya Tokatly

It is currently believed that light quantum or the quantization of light energy is beyond classical physics and the picture of wave-particle duality, which was criticized by Einstein but attracted a number of experimental researches, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wei-Long She

This paper presents the exact ground state solution for a diatomic particle system with position-dependent complex mass under action of a complex Morse potential in the quantum domain. By solving the position-dependent Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Partha Sarathi , Bhaskar Singh Rawat

Superoscillating functions and supershifts appear naturally in weak measurements in physics. Their evolution as initial conditions in the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation is an important and challenging problem in quantum mechanics and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Yakir Aharonov , Jussi Behrndt , Fabrizio Colombo , Peter Schlosser

Field mediated entanglement experiments probe the quantum superposition of macroscopically distinct field configurations. We show that this phenomenon can be described by using a transparent quantum field theoretical formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Lin-Qing Chen , Flaminia Giacomini , Carlo Rovelli

As a serious attempt for constructing a new foundation for describing micro-entities from a causal standpoint, it was explained before in [1, 2, 3] that by unifying the concepts of information, matter and energy, each micro-entity is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Fatemeh Ahmadi , Afshin Shafiee

Starting from the Schr\"odinger-equation of a composite system, we derive unified dynamics of a classical harmonic system coupled to an arbitrary quantized system. The classical subsystem is described by random phase-space coordinates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lajos Diosi

A key ingredient of cavity quantum-electrodynamics (QED) is the coupling between the discrete energy levels of an atom and photons in a single-mode cavity. The addition of periodic ultra-short laser pulses allows one to use such a system as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Neill Lambert , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

A quantum field theory approach is put forward to generalize the concept of classical spatial light beams carrying orbital angular momentum to the single-photon level. This quantization framework is carried out both in the paraxial and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. F. Calvo , A. Picon , E. Bagan

Quantum light is considered to be one of the key resources of the coming second quantum revolution expected to give rise to groundbreaking technologies and applications. If the spatio-temporal and polarization structure of modes is known,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Geehyun Yang , Matthias Kizmann , Alfred Leitenstorfer , Andrey S. Moskalenko

A central aim of physics is to describe the dynamics of physical systems. Schrodinger's equation does this for isolated quantum systems. Describing the time evolution of a quantum system that interacts with its environment, in its most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Kavan Modi

We present an overview of the framework of macroscopic quantum electrodynamics from a quantum nanophotonics perspective. Particularly, we focus our attention on three aspects of the theory which are crucial for the description of quantum…

We reconsider the recently proposed nonlinear QED effect of quantum reflection of photons off an inhomogeneous strong-field region. We present new results for strong fields varying both in space and time. While such configurations can give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-30 Holger Gies , Felix Karbstein , Nico Seegert

Photons are elementary particles of light in quantum mechanics, whose dynamics can be difficult to gain detailed insights, especially in complex systems. Simulation is a promising tool to resolve this issue, but it must address the curse of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Junpei Oba , Seiji Kajita , Akihito Soeda

In this and companion papers, we show that quantum field theories with gauge symmetries permit a broader class of classical dynamics than typically assumed. In this article, we show that the quantization of electromagnetism permits the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

We study a new method - called Schrodingerisation introduced in [Jin, Liu, Yu, arXiv: 2212.13969] - for solving general linear partial differential equations with quantum simulation. This method converts linear partial differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Yue Yu

We consider the Riemann problem of evolution of initial discontinuities for the photon fluid propagating in a normal dispersion fiber with account of self-steepening effects. The dynamics of light field is described by the nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-01-22 S. K. Ivanov , A. M. Kamchatnov

The object of this contribution is twofold. On one hand, it rises some general questions concerning the definition of the electromagnetic field and its intrinsic properties, and it proposes concepts and ways to answer them. On the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Bartolome Coll

It has been found, that free electromagnetic (EM) field in restricted volume (typical experimental case) consists of two independent and equally possible components with different parity under spatial inversion transformations. Either of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-09 A. Dovlatova , D. Yearchuck , Y. Yerchak , A. Alexandrov

A stochastic Schr\"odinger equation is presented to describe simultaneous continuous measurement of the position and momentum of a non-relativistic particle. The equation is solved to yield a state localised in position and momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Daniel J. Bedingham