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We present a theoretical model of matter-wave diffraction through a material nanostructure. This model is based on the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr{\"o}dinger equation, which goes beyond the standard semi-classical…

Both classical and wave-mechanical monochromatic waves may be treated in terms of exact ray-trajectories (encoded in the structure itself of Helmholtz-like equations) whose mutual coupling is the one and only cause of any diffraction and…

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It is known from quantum mechanics that particles are associated with wave functions, and that the probability of observing a particle at some future location is proportional to the squared modulus of the amplitude of its wave function.…

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We develop a data-driven characterization of the pilot-wave hydrodynamic system in which a bouncing droplet self-propels along the surface of a vibrating bath. We consider drop motion in a confined one-dimensional geometry, and apply the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-14 J. Nathan Kutz , Andre Nachbin , Peter J. Baddoo , John W. M. Bush

The recent development of dynamic single-electron sources makes it possible to observe and manipulate the quantum properties of individual charge carriers in mesoscopic circuits. Here, we investigate multi-particle effects in an electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 Janne Kotilahti , Pablo Burset , Michael Moskalets , Christian Flindt

As characteristic lengths in plasmonics rapidly approach the sub-nm regime, quantum-informed models that can capture those aspects of the quantum nature of the electron gas that are not accessible by the standard approximations of classical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Christos Tserkezis , A. T. Mina Yeşilyurt , Jer-Shing Huang , N. Asger Mortensen

In this work we produce a classical Lagrangian description of an elementary spinning particle which satisfies Dirac equation when quantized. We call this particle a classical Dirac particle. We analyze in detail the way we arrive to this…

Classical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Juan Barandiaran , Martin Rivas

Literature mentions only incidentally a sub-Doppler contribution in the excitation spectrum of the backward fluorescence of a dense vapor. This contribution is here investigated on Cs vapor, both on the first resonance line (894 nm) and on…

The purpose of this paper is to come up with a Pilot Wave model of quantum field theory that incorporates particle creation and annihilation without sacrificing determinism. This has been previously attempted in an article by the same…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Roman Sverdlov

Scattering of a time harmonic anti-plane shear wave due to either a pair of crack tips or a pair of rigid constraint tips on square lattice is considered. The two problems correspond to the so called zero-offset case of scattering due to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-12-21 Basant Lal Sharma , Gaurav Maurya

Interacting particles diffusing in single-file is a fundamental model of transport in narrow channels where particles cannot bypass each other. An important result has been obtained by Kollmann [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 180602 (2003)] for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Théotim Berlioz , Olivier Bénichou , Aurélien Grabsch

Quantum walks are counterparts of classical random walks. They spread faster, which can be exploited in information processing tasks, and constitute a versatile simulation platform for many quantum systems. Yet, some of their properties can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Xiaoxiao Chen , Zhe Meng , Jian Li , Jiazhi Yang , Anning Zhang , Tomasz Kopyciuk , Pawel Kurzynski

The precise tracking of micron sized colloidal particles - held in the vicinity of each other using optical tweezers - is an elegant way to gain information about the particle-particle pair interaction potential. The accuracy of the method,…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-26 Chi Zhang , Georges Brügger , Frank Scheffold

On the basis of an alternative approach to micro-cat states (Found. of Phys., 41, No. 9, p.1502 (2011)) we develop a new model of the two-slit experiment. It explains both this particular experiment and how the wave properties of any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. L. Chuprikov

Light's wave-particle duality is at the heart of quantum mechanics and can be well illustrated by Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment. The choice of inserting or removing the second classical (quantum) beam splitter in a Mach-Zehnder…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-06 H. Yan , K. Liao , Z. Deng , J. He , Z. Y. Xue , Z. M. Zhang , S. L. Zhu

Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Mathieu's equation are found in the short wavelength limit using a uniform approximation (method of comparison with a `known' equation having the same classical turning point structure) applied in Fourier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-09 Duncan H. J. O'Dell

We extend the study of Kapitza-Dirac diffraction to the case of two-particle systems. Due to the exchange effects the shape and visibility of the two-particle detection patterns show important differences for identical and distinguishable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Pedro Sancho

Diffraction is a phenomenon, discussed for centuries from various points of view. The very simple principle, proposed by Huygens [1] and then modified by Fresnel[2], Stokes [3] and Kirchoff [4], allows us to make calculations, substituting…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-03 Ilya A. Kudryavtsev

We study the dynamics of a one-dimensional classical particle in a space and time dependent potential with randomly chosen parameters. The focus of this work is a quasi-periodic potential, which only includes a finite number of Fourier…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yaniv Tenenbaum Katan , Tal Kachman , Shmuel Fishman , Avy Soffer

Modern digital circuit design relies on fast digital timing simulation tools and, hence, on accurate binary-valued circuit models that faithfully model signal propagation, even throughout a complex design. Unfortunately, it was recently…

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