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In this paper the heat transport in microtubules (MT) is investigated. When the dimension of the structure is of the order of the de Broglie wave length the transport phenomena must be analyzed within quantum mechanics. In this paper we…
Quantum diffusion is studied via dissipative Madelung hydrodynamics. Initially the wave packet spreads ballistically, than passes for an instant through normal diffusion and later tends asymptotically to a sub-diffusive law. It is shown…
Solution of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation perturbed by small external force is investigated. The frequency of perturbation varies slowly and passes through a resonance. The resonance generates a solitary packets of waves. Full…
We demonstrate theoretically that ultrafast heating of metal nanoparticles by the laser pulse should lead to the generation of coherent terahertz (THz) radiation during the heat redistribution process. It is shown that after the femtosecond…
Characteristic properties of secondary electrons emitted from irradiated two-dimensional materials arise from multi-length and time-scale relaxation processes that connect the initial non-equilibrium excited electron distribution with their…
Recently two emerging areas of research, attosecond and nanoscale physics, have started to come together. Attosecond physics deals with phenomena occurring when ultrashort laser pulses, with duration on the femto- and sub-femtosecond time…
Thermal diffusivity of solid materials is commonly measured using laser flash analysis. This technique involves applying a heat pulse to the front surface of a small sample of the material and calculating the thermal diffusivity from the…
Solution of the nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation perturbed by small external force is investigated. The perturbation is represented by finite collections of harmonics. The frequencies of the perturbation vary slowly and pass through the…
The femtosecond laser pulse heating of silver film is investigated by performing quantum mechanics (QM), molecular dynamics (MD) and two temperature model (TTM) integrated multiscale simulation. The laser excitation dependent electron…
With the generation of high order harmonics (HHG) on the plasma surface it is possible to turn the laser pulse into a train of attosecond or even zeptosecond pulses in the back radiation. These attosecond pulses may have amplitude several…
State-of-the-art attosecond metrology deals with the detection and characterization of photon pulses with typical energies up to the hundreds of eV and time resolution of several tens of attoseconds. Such short pulses are used for example…
Electron and phonon transient temperatures are analyzed in the case of nondegenerate semiconductors. An analytical solution is obtained for rectangular laser pulse absorption. It is shown that thermal diffusion is the main energy relaxation…
The heating of a two-dimensional electron gas by an rf electric field generated by a surface acoustic wave, which can be described by an electron temperature $T_e$, has been investigated. It is shown that the energy balance of the electron…
Transient cooling phenomenon in two-dimensional materials is studied based on the phonon Boltzmann transport equation (BTE). Using a heating laser pulse to heat the two-dimensional disk geometry under the environment temperature, after the…
Particle heating in advection-dominated accretion flows (ADAFs) by nonlinear MHD (Alfvenic) turbulence is investigated. Such turbulence with highly-fluctuating magnetic fields, $\tilde B\sim B_0$, is believed to be naturally produced by the…
Attosecond pulses can be used to initiate and control electron dynamics on a sub-femtosecond time scale. The first step in this process occurs when an atom absorbs an ultraviolet photon leading to the formation of an attosecond electron…
Using a density matrix description in space we study the evolution of wavepackets in a fluctuating space-time background. We assume that space-time fluctuations manifest as classical fluctuations of the metric. From the non-relativistic…
In this paper the thermal processes generated by yoctosecond (10-24 s) laser pulses in QGP are investigated. Considering that the relaxation time in QGP is of the order of 1 ys it is shown that in QGP the yoctosecond laser pulses can…