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Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

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The nonlinear theory of anomalous diffusion is based on particle interactions giving an explicit microscopic description of diffusive processes leading to sub-, normal, or super-diffusion as a result competitive effects between attractive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-20 Jean Pierre Boon , James F. Lutsko

Using the methods of computer modeling this scientific paper studies the special features of diffusion of the particles subjected to the external periodic force in the crystal lattice. The particle motion is described by a Langevin…

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Stochastic cooling of trapped atoms is considered for a laser-beam configuration with beam waists equal or smaller than the extent of the atomic cloud. It is shown, that various effects appear due to this transverse confinement, among them…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Ivanov , S. Wallentowitz

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices offer a unique platform for investigating disorder-driven phenomena. While static disordered site potentials have been explored in a number of optical lattice experiments, a more general control over…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-28 Fangzhao Alex An , Eric J. Meier , Bryce Gadway

The onset of the Rayleigh-Benard instability in a horizontal fluid layer is investigated by assuming the fluid as a binary mixture and the concentration buoyancy as the driving force. The focus of this study is on the anomalous diffusion…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-06-18 A. Barletta , B. Straughan

We develop an analytical theory for diffusive random lasers by coupling the transport theory of the disordered medium to the semiclassical laser rate equations, accounting for (coherent) stimulated and (incoherent) spontaneous emission.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-03-27 R. Frank , A. Lubatsch , J. Kroha

We demonstrate the possibility of three-dimensional cooling of neutral atoms by illuminating them with two counterpropagating laser beams of mutually orthogonal linear polarization, where one of the lasers is a speckle field, i.e. a highly…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Horak , Jean-Yves Courtois , Gilbert Grynberg

We show that the Turing patterns in reaction systems with subdiffusion can be replicated in an effective system with Markovian cross-diffusion. The effective system has the same Turing instability as the original system, and the same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-01-29 Joseph W. Baron , Tobias Galla

We propose the application of laser cooling to a number of transition-metal atoms, allowing numerous bosonic and fermionic atomic gases to be cooled to ultra-low temperatures. The non-zero electron orbital angular momentum of these atoms…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-12-03 Scott Eustice , Kayleigh Cassella , Dan Stamper-Kurn

Collective spins in thermal gases are at the core of a multitude of science and technology applications. In most of them, the random thermal motion of the particles is considered detrimental as it is responsible for decoherence and noise.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 P. Bevington , J. Nicholson , J. D. Zipfel , W. Chalupczak , C. Mishra , V. Guarrera

We investigate the steady-state transport characteristics of a quantum dot system consisting of a single energy level embedded between two reservoirs under the influence of both the temperature gradient and bias voltage. Within tailored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Yanchao Zhang , Xiaolong Lü

The self-diffusion coefficient of a granular gas in the homogeneous cooling state is analyzed near the shearing instability. Using mode-coupling theory, it is shown that the coefficient diverges logarithmically as the instability is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-02 J. Javier Brey , Maria J. Ruiz-Montero

The diffusions and anomalous diffusions of charged particles in the plateau regime of toroidal plasma with a Maxwellian velocity distribution are studied. The transport theory of plasma is discussed under the toroidal coordinate system and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Wang Hong , Du Jiulin

We outline the non-perturbative theory of multiple scattering of resonant, intense laser light off a dilute cloud of cold atoms. A combination of master equation and diagrammatic techniques allows, for the first time, a quantitative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-18 Tobias Binninger , Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin , Andreas Buchleitner , Thomas Wellens

The transport equation of active motion is generalised to consider time-fractional dynamics for describing the anomalous diffusion of self-propelled particles observed in many different systems. In the present study, we consider an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-27 Francisco J. Sevilla , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Trifce Sandev

The straightforward application of energy and linear momentum conservation to the absorption/emission of photons by atoms allows to establish the essential features of laser cooling of two levels atoms at low laser intensities. The lowest…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Giuseppe Giuliani

We propose a diffusion model for the recently discovered diffusion-induced Ramsey narrowing arising when atoms diffuse in a buffer-gas cell in the laser radiation field. The diffusion equation for the coherence of metastable states coupled…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-07-27 V. I. Romanenko , A. V. Romanenko , L. P. Yatsenko

Here we characterize the motility of athermal swimming droplets within the framework of active rotational diffusion. Just like active colloids, their trajectories can be modeled with a constant velocity $V$ and a slow angular diffusion, but…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-20 Adrien Izzet , Pepijn Moerman , Jan Groenewold , Jérôme Bibette , Jasna Brujić

The general idea that optical radiation may cool matter was put forward by Pringsheim already in 1929. Doppler cooling of dilute atomic gases is an extremely successful application of this concept, and more recently anti-Stokes cooling in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Ulrich Vogl , Martin Weitz