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We present a method of transferring a cold atom between spatially separated microtraps by means of a Raman transition between the ground motional states of the two traps. The intermediate states for the Raman transition are the vibrational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. B. Deb , G. Smirne , R. M. Godun , C. J. Foot

With regard to the three basic states of matter (solid, liquid, gas), the calculation of the heat capacity of liquids in a general form has been considered one of the deepest and most interesting challenges in condensed matter physics, due…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-04 M. Y. Esmer , Bahtiyar A. Mamedov

Including quantum mechanical effects on the dynamics of nuclei in the condensed phase is challenging, because the complexity of exact methods grows exponentially with the number of quantum degrees of freedom. Efforts to circumvent these…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mariana Rossi , Hanchao Liu , Francesco Paesani , Joel Bowman , Michele Ceriotti

In conventional \textit{ab initio} methodologies, phonons are calculated by solving equations of motion involving static interatomic force constants and atomic masses. The Born-Oppenheimer approximation, where all electronic degrees of…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-15 Shang Ren , John Bonini , Massimiliano Stengel , Cyrus E. Dreyer , David Vanderbilt

An extended variational principle providing the equations of motion for a system consisting of interacting classical, quasiclassical and quantum components is presented, and applied to the model of bilinear coupling. The relevant dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Grigorescu

A simple variational Lagrangian is proposed for the time development of an arbitrary density matrix, employing the "factorization" of the density. Only the "kinetic energy" appears in the Lagrangian. The formalism applies to pure and mixed…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Englman , A. Yahalom

We propose a method for temperature measurement by analyzing the frequency of generated time crystals in one-dimensional (1D) quantum droplets. The system consists of a binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixture confined in a driven…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-07 Saurab Das , Jagnyaseni Jogania , Jayanta Bera , Ajay Nath

By taking both the Doppler frequency shift for electromagnetic wave and the quantum energy variation of matter wave into consideration, a resonant-absorption condition based on the local-ether wave equation is presented to account for a…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ching-Chuan Su

When two solids are separated by a vacuum gap of thickness smaller than the wavelength of acoustic phonons, the latter can tunnel across the gap thanks to van der Waals forces or electrostatic interactions. Here we show that these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Mauricio Gómez Viloria , Yangyu Guo , Samy Merabia , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah

In the framework of the Polyakov quark-meson model with two flavors, the bubble dynamics of a first-order phase transition in the region of high density and low temperature are investigated by using the homogeneous thermal nucleation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Junrong Wang , Jinshuang Jin , Hong Mao

Preparing a massive mechanical resonator in a state with quantum limited motional energy provides a promising platform for studying fundamental physics with macroscopic systems and allows to realize a variety of applications, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Jingkun Guo , Jin Chang , Xiong Yao , Simon Gröblacher

The present manuscript gives a theoretical description of the first-order phase transition in a cell fluid model with a modified Morse potential and additional repulsive interaction. In the framework of the grand canonical ensemble, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-03 M. P. Kozlovskii , O. A. Dobush

The femtosecond optical pump-probe technique was used to study dynamics of photoexcited electrons and coherent optical phonons in transition metals Zn and Cd as a function of temperature and excitation level. The optical response in time…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-11 Muneaki Hase , Kunie Ishioka , Jure Demsar , Kiminori Ushida , Masahiro Kitajima

Ionized geocosmic media parameters in a thermal and a subthermal range of energy have a number of unique features. The photoresonance plasma that is formed by optical excitation of the lowest excited (resonance) atomic states is one example…

The energy spectrum of a system of Bose atoms in the superfluid phase in an optical lattice of the graphene type has been studied. The dispersion laws for the energy bands and the single particle spectral densities are calculated in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-21 I. V. Stasyuk , O. V. Velychko , I. R. Dulepa

We suggest a better mathematical method, fractional calculus, for studying the behavior of the atom-field interaction in photonic crystals. By studying the spontaneous emission of an atom in a photonic crystal with one-band isotropic model,…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Szu-Cheng Cheng , Jing-Nuo Wu , Ming-Rung Tsai , Wen-Feng Hsieh

A new code called VAAQP (Variational Average-Atom in Quantum Plasmas) is reported. The model as well as main results of previous studies are briefly recalled. The code is based on a new fully variational model of dense plasmas at…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 R. Piron , T. Blenski , B. Cichocki

Relative motion in a two-component, trapped atomic gas provides a sensitive probe of interactions. By studying the lowest frequency excitations of a two spin-state gas confined in a magnetic trap, we have explored the transition from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. D. Gensemer , D. S. Jin

We analyze the time-dependent energy and heat flows in a resonant level coupled to a fermionic continuum. The level is periodically forced with an external power source that supplies energy into the system. Based on the tunneling…

We investigate the effects of a low frequency (acoustic) phonon bath on the dynamics of a quantum dot modelled as a cascade three-level system. We show that the phonon bath appears to the upper transition of the cascade system as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Hui Huang , Gao-xiang Li , Wen-ju Gu , Zbigniew Ficek