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We study degenerate three photon down conversion as a potential scheme for generating nonclassical states of light which exhibit clear signatures of phase space interference. The Wigner function representing these states contains an…

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Wave-particle duality is a typical example of Bohr's complementarity principle that plays a significant role in quantum mechanics. Previous studies used the visibility of an interference pattern to quantify the wave property and used path…

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Paths of particles, emitted from distributed sources and passing out through slits of two gratings, $G_{0}$ and $G_{1}$, up to detectors, have been computed in details by the path integral method. The slits are represented by Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-20 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

We present three different methods of calculating the non-relativistic dynamics of a quantum matter-wave evolving in a superposition of the inertial and accelerated motions. The relative phase between the two, which is classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Vlatko Vedral

A central challenge in Gravitational Wave Astronomy is identifying weak signals in the presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise. The separation of gravitational wave signals from noise requires good models for both. When accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg

The Wigner Transform (WT) has been extensively used in the formulation of phase-space models for a variety of wave propagation problems including high-frequency limits, nonlinear and random waves. It is well known that the WT features…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-19 Agissilaos G. Athanassoulis

In the present work, we have analyzed the motion of a structured matter wave in the presence of a constant magnetic field and under the influence of a time-dependent external force. We have introduced exact propagator kernels obtained from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-19 Shohre Janjan , Fardin Kheirandish

A matter wave propagating through curved spacetime accumulates phase that encodes both geometry and gauge structure. We develop a semiclassical framework for charged spin-$1/2$ matter-wave interferometers based on a WKB expansion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Nontapat Wanwieng , Apimook Watcharangkool

In the framework of statistical optics, a Wigner function represents partially coherent radiation. A Gaussian Wigner function, which is an equivalent representation of the more commonly used Gaussian Schell-model cross-spectral density, may…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Ilya V. Pogorelov , Boaz Nash , Dan T. Abell , Paul Moeller , Nicholas Goldring

We revisit the vital issue of gauge dependence in the scalar-induced secondary gravitational waves (SIGWs), focusing on the radiation domination (RD) and matter domination (MD) eras. The energy density spectrum is the main physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-10 Arshad Ali , Ya-Peng Hu , Mudassar Sabir , Taotao Sui

Refraction, interference, and diffraction serve as distinguishing features for wave-like phenomena. While they are normally associated only with a purely spatial wave-propagation pattern, analogs to interference and diffraction involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 M. Jaaskelainen , M. Lombard , U. Zuelicke

Quantum tunneling is the phenomenon that makes superconducting circuits "quantum". Recently, there has been a renewed interest in using quantum tunneling in phase space of a Kerr parametric oscillator as a resource for quantum information…

A known limitation of time-dependent mean-field approaches is a lack of quantum tunneling for collective motions such as in sub-barrier fusion reactions. As a first step toward a solution, a time-dependent model is considered using a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Akira Ono

We explore the potential of gravitational waves (GWs) to probe the pre-BBN era of the early universe, focusing on the effects of energy injection. Specifically, we examine a hidden sector alongside the Standard Model that undergoes a strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-12 James B. Dent , Bhaskar Dutta , Mudit Rai

Ultra-cold atomic gases provide new chance to study the universal critical behavior of phase transition. We study theoretically the matter wave interference for ultra-cold Bose gases in the critical regime. We demonstrate that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-06-28 Xuguang Yue , Shujuan Liu , Biao Wu , Hongwei Xiong

We derive an exact analytical solution to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for transmission of a Gaussian wave packet through an arbitrary potential of finite range. We consider the situation where the initial Gaussian wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 Sergio Cordero , Gaston Garcia-Calderon

The Wigner phase-space distribution function provides the basis for Moyal's deformation quantization alternative to the more conventional Hilbert space and path integral quantizations. General features of time-independent Wigner functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-02 Thomas Curtright , David Fairlie , Cosmas Zachos

The relationship between classical and quantum mechanics is explored in an intuitive manner by the exercise of constructing a wave in association with a classical particle. Using special relativity, the time coordinate in the frame of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-12-08 C. L. Herzenberg

In quantum mechanics, time is introduced as a non-measurable quantity, as there is no possibility to build a hermitian operator canonically conjugated to the Hamiltonian. We cannot have, therefore, the time operator, which means that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 Andrzej Góźdź , Marek Góźdź

Wigner-positive quantum states have the peculiarity to admit a Wigner function that is a genuine probability distribution over phase space. The Shannon differential entropy of the Wigner function of such states -- called Wigner entropy for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Zacharie Van Herstraeten , Nicolas J. Cerf