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A semi-classical model based on quantum time concepts is presented for the evaluation of bremsstrahlung emission probabilities in alpha decay of nuclei. The contribution to the bremsstrahlung emission from the different regions in tunneling…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-01-10 N. G. Kelkar , M. Nowakowski

Domain walls are topological defects that may have formed in the early Universe through the spontaneous breakdown of discrete symmetries, and can be a strong source of gravitational waves (GWs). We perform 3D lattice field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-21 Simone Blasi , Alberto Mariotti , Aäron Rase , Miguel Vanvlasselaer

We study the decay of general initial states out of a metastable potential well in quantum mechanics. We provide a closed-form expression for the probability current that tunnels through the barrier in terms of the resonant states into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Oliver Janssen , Matthew Kleban , Cameron Norton

In quantum cosmological models, constructed in the framework of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metrics, a nucleation of the Universe with its further expansion is described as a tunneling transition through an effective barrier between regions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Sergei P. Maydanyuk

Here we consider the time evolution of a one-dimensional quantum system with a double barrier given by a couple of two repulsive Dirac's deltas. In such a "pedagogical" model we give, by means of the theory of quantum resonances, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Andrea Sacchetti

In this paper, the interaction and transmission time of quantum density solitons waves representing particles passing through finite barrier potentials is investigated. Using the conservation of energy and of quantum density, it is first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-24 Babur M. Mirza

By using an exact analytical approach to the time evolution of decay we investigate the tunneling decay of ultracold single atoms, to discuss the conditions for deviations of the exponential decay law. We find that $R$, given by the ratio…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Gastón García-Calderón , Roberto Romo

We investigate false vacuum decay of a relativistic scalar field initialized in the metastable minimum of an asymmetric double-well potential. The transition to the true ground state is a well-defined initial-value problem in real time,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-09 Laura Batini , Aleksandr Chatrchyan , Jürgen Berges

This paper revisited quantum tunneling dynamics through a square double-barrier potential. We emphasized the similarity of tunneling dynamics through double-barrier and that of optical Fabry--P$\acute{e}$rot (FP) interferometer. Based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 Zhi Xiao , Shi-sen Du , Chun-Xi Zhang

The theory of a response of a two-energy-level system, irradiated by symmetrical light pulses, has been developed.(Suchlike electronic system approximates under the definite conditions a single ideal quantum well (QW) in a strong magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. I. Korovin , I. G. Lang D. A. Contreras-Solorio , S. T. Pavlov

We investigate tunneling decay in a magnetic field. Because of broken time-reversal symmetry, the standard WKB technique does not apply. The decay rate and the outcoming wave packet are found from the analysis of the set of the particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Barabash-Sharpee , M. I. Dykman , P. M. Platzman

Due to the inevitable existence of quantum effects, a classical description generically breaks down after a finite quantum break-time $t_q$. We aim to find criteria for determining $t_q$. To this end, we construct a new prototype model that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Marco Michel , Sebastian Zell

We analyze the dynamics of a single-level quantum dot with Coulomb interaction, weakly tunnel coupled to an electronic reservoir, after it has been brought out of equilibrium, e.g. by a step-pulse potential. We investigate the exponential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 L. Debora Contreras-Pulido , Janine Splettstoesser , Michele Governale , Jürgen König , Markus Büttiker

The decay rate of metastable states is determined at high temperatures by thermal activation, whereas at temperatures close to zero quantum tunneling is relevant. At some temperature $T_{c}$ the transition from classical to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. A. Gorokhov , G. Blatter

This paper is devoted to the study of quantum dissipation in cluster decay phenomena in the frame of the Lindblad approach to quantum open systems. The tunneling of a metastable state across a piecewise quadratic potential is envisaged for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. Misicu

Employing the time-dependent approach, we investigate a quantum tunneling decay of many-particle systems. We apply it to a one-dimensional three-body problem with a heavy core nucleus and two valence protons. We calculate the decay width…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Takahito Maruyama , Tomohiro Oishi , Kouichi Hagino , Hiroyuki Sagawa

We examine an analytical expression for the survival probability for the time evolution of quantum decay to discuss a regime where quantum decay is nonexponential at all times. We find that the interference between the exponential and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-01 Gaston Garcia-Calderon , Jorge Villavicencio

This is the second paper in a cycle investigating the exact solution of loop equations in decaying turbulence. We perform numerical simulations of the Euler ensemble, suggested in the previous work, as a solution to the loop equations. We…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-04 Alexander Migdal

In a recent paper Yu and Eberly [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93}, 140404 (2004)] have shown that two initially entangled and afterwards not interacting qubits can become completely disentangled in a finite time. We study transient entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Z. Ficek , R. Tanas

After reviewing the description of an unstable state in the framework of Lee Hamiltonians (valid both for Quantum Mechanics (QM) and Quantum Field Theory (QFT)), we consider some theoretical aspects of non-exponential decays: the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Francesco Giacosa