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We propose a simple way to determine the periodicities of wave packets in quantum systems directly from the energy differences of the states involved. The resulting classical periods and revival times are more accurate than those obtained…

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In the foundation of quantum mechanics, the spatial dimensions of electron wavepacket are understood only in terms of an expectation value - the probability distribution of the particle location. One can still inquire how the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 Avraham Gover , Yiming Pan

The quantum clock of Salecker-Wigner-Peres is used, by performing a post-selection of the final state, to obtain average transmission and reflection times associated to the scattering of localized wave packets by static potentials in one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-16 José T. Lunardi , Luiz A. Manzoni , Andrew T. Nystrom

We study the recovery of one-dimensional semipermeable barriers for a stochastic process in a planar domain. The considered process acts like Brownian motion when away from the barriers and is reflected upon contact until a sufficient but…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Alexander Van Werde , Jaron Sanders

We develop a wavepacket approach to the diffraction of charged particles by a thin material target and we use the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectories to study various phenomena in this context. We find the form of the separator, i.e.the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 C. Efthymiopoulos , N. Delis , G. Contopoulos

On the elementary level, electronic current consists of individual electron tunnelling events that are separated by random time intervals. The waiting time distribution is a probability to observe the electron transfer in the detector…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-21 Daniel S. Kosov

The energy and waiting time distributions are important properties for understanding the physical mechanism of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). Recently, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) detected the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 G. Q. Zhang , P. Wang , Q. Wu , F. Y. Wang , D. Li , Z. G. Dai , B. Zhang

Electromagnetic wave interaction with time-varying systems has gained a lot of research interest in recent years. The temporal modulation gives unprecedented control over the response, allowing us to go beyond the state-of-the-art in…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Tamir Zchut , Yarden Mazor

The spreading of quantum mechanical wave packets is studied in two cases. Firstly we look at the time behavior of the packet width of a free particle confined in the observable Universe. Secondly, by imposing the conservation of the time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. G. Caldas , P. R. Silva

In this paper, we address the motion of charged particles subjected to a discrete spectrum of electrostatic waves. We focus on situations when transport dominates, leading to significant variations in particle velocity. Nonetheless, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Didier Bénisti

The traversal time for tunneling is a measure of the time during which the transmitted particle can be affected by interactions localized in the barrier. The Buttiker-Landauer approach, which estimates this time by imposing an internal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Galperin , Abraham Nitzan , Uri Peskin

We present a simple method to expedite simulation of quantum wave-packet dynamics by more than a factor of $2$ with the Strang split-operator propagation. Dynamics of quantum wave-packets are often evaluated using the the \emph{Strang}…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Igal Aharonovich , Avi Pe'er

The characterization problem of the existence of an unknown obstacle behind a known obstacle is considered by using a singe observed wave at a place where the wave is generated. The unknown obstacle is invisible from the place by using…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Masaru Ikehata

We consider a heavy, uniform, elastic beam rested on periodically distributed supports as a simplified model of a bridge. The supports are subjected to a partial destruction propagating as a failure wave along the beam. Three related models…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Michele Brun , Alexander B. Movchan , Leonid I. Slepyan

We introduce a formalism for the calculation of the time of arrival t at a space point for particles traveling through interacting media. We develop a general formulation that employs quantum canonical transformations from the free to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 J. Leon , J. Julve , P. Pitanga , F. J. de Urries

We investigate the short-, medium-, and long-term time dependence of wave packets in the infinite square well. In addition to emphasizing the appearance of wave packet revivals, i.e., situations where a spreading wave packet reforms with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. W. Robinett

Monitoring time-dependence with diffusion MRI yields observables sensitive to compartment sizes (restricted diffusion) and membrane permeability (water exchange). However, restricted diffusion and exchange have opposite effects on the…

We study viscoelastic subdiffusion in bistable and periodic potentials within the Generalized Langevin Equation approach. Our results justify the (ultra)slow fluctuating rate view of the corresponding bistable non-Markovian dynamics which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-03-11 Igor Goychuk

In this paper we calculate the analytic expression of the phase time for the scattering of an electron off a complex square barrier. As is well known the (negative) imaginary part of the potential takes into account, phenomenologically, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabio Raciti , Giovanni Salesi

We consider the quantum scattering off a time dependent barrier in one dimension. Our initial state is a right going eigenstate of the Hamiltonian at time t=0. It consists of a plane wave incoming from the left, a reflected plane wave on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Ori Reinhardt , Moshe Schwartz