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We show how, beginning with the Fokker--Planck equation for electrons emitting synchrotron radiation in a storage ring, the corresponding equation for spin motion can be constructed. This is an equation of the Bloch type for the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2011-04-20 K. Heinemann , D. P. Barber

In this paper, traveling wave solutions to the nonlinearly dispersive Schr\"odinger equation are given in the case of one-dimensional non-relativistic electron confined to a cylindrical quantum well. Investigations gave evidence to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-30 Karem Boubaker , Lin Zhang

We study the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves in randomly heterogeneous bianisotropic media with dissipative properties. For that purpose we consider randomly fluctuating optical responses of such media with correlation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Jean-Luc Akian , Éric Savin

We consider the classical integral equation reformulation of the radiative transport equation (RTE) in a heterogeneous medium, assuming isotropic scattering. We prove an estimate for the norm of the integral operator in this formulation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-21 J. C. H. Blake , I. G. Graham , F. Scheben , A. Spence

The present note establishes the self-averaging, radiative transfer limit for the two-frequency Wigner distribution for classical waves in random media. Depending on the ratio of the wavelength to the correlation length the limiting…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Albert Fannjiang

We establish asymptotic diffusion limits of the non-classical transport equation derived in [E. W. Larsen, A generalized Boltzmann equation for non-classical particle transport, Joint international topical meeting on mathematics &…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-15 Martin Frank , Weiran Sun

Starting with the many-body Schr\"odinger equation we derive new rate equations for resonant transport in quantum dots linked by ballistic channels with high density of states. The charging and the Pauli exclusion principle effects were…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. Gurvitz

An efficient new method is presented to calculate the quantum transports using periodic boundary conditions. This new method is based on a method we developed previously, but with an essential change in solving the Schrodinger's equation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Lin-Wang Wang

The varying-mass Schr\"odinger equation (VMSE) has been successfully applied to model electronic properties of semiconductor hetero-structures, for example, quantum dots and quantum wells. In this paper, we consider VMSE with small random…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Shi Chen , Qin Li , Xu Yang

Albeit the past intensive research, the governing equation of anomalous diffusion which is observed for the transport of particles underground is still an open problem. In this paper, as a governing equation, the advection-diffusion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Manabu Machida

Understanding, predicting, and controlling physical processes often relies on the analysis of the dynamics of partial differential equations (PDEs). In this context, the present study offers an in-depth investigation into the nonlinear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-10 J. M. Escorcia

By expressing the time-independent Schrodinger equation in one dimension as a system of two first-order differential equations, the transfer matrix for a rectangular potential barrier is obtained making use of the matrix exponential. It is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-06-08 G. F. Torres del Castillo , I. Rubalcava Garcia

A novel statistical approach based on the Wigner transform is proposed for the description of partially incoherent optical wave dynamics in nonlinear media. An evolution equation for the Wigner transform is derived from a nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Hall , M. Lisak , D. Anderson , R. Fedele , V. E. Semenov

The nonlinear Schroedinger equation in the presence of disorder is considered. The dynamics of an initially localized wave packet is studied. A subdiffusive spreading of the wave packet is explained in the framework of a continuous time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexander Iomin

We consider the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with nonzero conditions at infinity in $\R^2$. We investigate the existence of traveling waves that are periodic in the direction transverse to the direction of propagation and minimize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Mihai Mariş , Anthony Mur

Heterogeneity can be accounted for by a random potential in the wave equation. For acoustic waves in a fluid with fluctuations of both density and compressibility (as well as for electromagnetic waves in a medium with fluctuation of both…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 Ibrahim Baydoun , Diego Baresch , Romain Pierrat , Arnaud Derode

Radiative transfer in curved spacetimes has become increasingly important to understanding high-energy astrophysical phenomena and testing general relativity in the strong field limit. The equations of radiative transfer are physically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Avery E. Broderick

The theory of Bloch electron dynamics for carriers in homogeneous electric and magnetic fields of arbitrary time dependence is developed in the framework of the Liouville equation. The Wigner distribution function (WDF) is determined from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 G. J. Iafrate , V. N. Sokolov , J. B. Krieger

In this article, for the radiative transport equation, we study inverse problems of determining a time independent scattering coefficient or total attenuation by boundary data on the complementary sub-boundary after making one time input of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-30 Manabu Machida , Masahiro Yamamoto

We use an adiabatic approximation in terms of instantaneous resonances to study the steady-state and time-dependent transport properties of interacting electrons in biased resonant tunneling heterostructures. This approach leads, in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Carlo Presilla , Johannes Sjöstrand