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Quantum escapes of a particle from an end of a one-dimensional finite region to $N$ number of semi-infinite leads are discussed by a scattering theoretical approach. Depending on a potential barrier amplitude at the junction, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Tooru Taniguchi , Shin-ichi Sawada

The quasi-coherent effects in two-dimensional incompressible turbulence are analyzed starting from the test particle trajectories. They can acquire coherent aspects when the stochastic potential has slow time variation and the motion is not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 M. Vlad , F. Spineanu

We describe a computational investigation of tunneling at finite energy in a weakly coupled quantum mechanical system with two degrees of freedom. We compare a full quantum mechanical analysis to the results obtained by making use of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 G. F. Bonini , A. G. Cohen , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We present a review of recent research on quantum entanglement, with special emphasis on entanglement between single atoms, processing of an encoded entanglement and its temporary evolution. Analysis based on the density matrix formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zbigniew Ficek

The recognition that large classes of quantum many-body systems have limited entanglement in the ground and low-lying excited states led to dramatic advances in their numerical simulation via so-called tensor networks. However, global…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-02 Marek M. Rams , Michael Zwolak

Quantum tunneling allows electrons to be transferred between two regions separated by an energetically forbidden barrier. Performing a position measurement that finds a particle in the barrier forces the tunneling electrons to transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Rafael Sánchez , Alok Nath Singh , Andrew N. Jordan , Bibek Bhandari

A classical representation of an extended body over barriers of height greater than the energy of the incident body is shown to have many features in common with quantum tunneling as the center-of-mass literally goes through the barrier. It…

General Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Arthur Cohn , Mario Rabinowitz

We study the escape rate of a particle in a metastable potential in presence of a dissipative bath coupled to the momentum of the particle. Using the semiclassical bounce technique, we find that this rate is exponentially enhanced. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Dominik Maile , Sabine Andergassen , Wolfgang Belzig , Gianluca Rastelli

Recently there has been increasing interest in alternate methods to compute quantum tunneling in field theory. Of particular interest is a stochastic approach which involves (i) sampling from the free theory Gaussian approximation to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-08 Mark P. Hertzberg , Fabrizio Rompineve , Neil Shah

We study tunneling of the magnetic moment in a particle that has full rotational freedom. Exact energy levels are obtained and the ground-state magnetic moment is computed for a symmetric rotor. The effect of the mechanical freedom on spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 M. F. O'Keeffe , E. M. Chudnovsky , D. A. Garanin

Coherence is the most fundamental quantum resource in quantum information processing. How fast a physical system gets coherence or decoherence is a critical ingredient. We present an attainable quantum speed limit based on the variation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Zi-yi Mai , CHang-shui Yu

In any spacetime, it is possible to have a family of observers following a congruence of timelike curves such that they do not have access to part of the spacetime. This lack of information suggests associating a (congruence dependent)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Padmanabhan

We investigate macroscopic quantum tunneling of a Bose condensate and how it is affected by the interatomic interaction. We study the dynamics of a condensate falling under gravity and scattering on a Gaussian potential barrier that models…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Salasnich , A. Parola , L. Reatto

In the usual quantum tunneling, a low-energy quantum particle penetrates across a physical barrier of higher potential energy, by traversing a classically forbidden region, and finally escapes into another region. In an analogous scenario,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 V. R. Krithika , M. S. Santhanam , T. S. Mahesh

Quantum tunnelling from a tilted, but otherwise periodic potential is studied. Our theoretical and experimental results show that, by controlling the system's parameters, we can engineer the escape rate of a Bose-Einstein condensate to an…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-06-05 Sandro Wimberger , Donatella Ciampini , Oliver Morsch , Riccardo Mannella , Ennio Arimondo

Quantum speed limit (QSL) is a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics and provides a lower bound on the evolution time. The attainability of QSL, greatly depending on the understanding of QSL, is a long-standing open problem especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Zi-yi Mai , Chang-shui Yu

We study a new kind of tunneling of particles through a barrier particular to quantum field theory. Here, the particles traverse the barrier by splitting into a virtual pair of particles of a different species which interacts only very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-24 Holger Gies , Joerg Jaeckel

How much time does a tunneling wave packet spent in traversing a barrier? Quantum mechanical calculations result in zero time inside a barrier . In the nineties analogous tunneling experiments with microwaves were carried out. The results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Guenter Nimtz

We follow up the work, where in light of the Picard-Lefschetz thimble approach, we split up the real-time path integral into two parts: the initial density matrix part which can be represented via an ensemble of initial conditions, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Zong-Gang Mou , Paul M. Saffin , Anders Tranberg

Quasiclassical methods for non-adiabatic quantum dynamics can reveal new features of quantum effects, such as tunneling evolution, that are harder to reveal in standard treatments based on wave functions of stationary states. Here, these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-06 Martin Bojowald , Pip Petersen