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We show that two-particle interferences can be used to probe the nuclear motion in a doubly-excited hydrogen molecule. The dissociation of molecular hydrogen by electron impact involves several decay channels, associated to different…

We examine the properties of a quantum reflection trap when particle-interaction is included. We explore the influence of the particle-interaction on the trapping for different regimes: repulsive particle-interaction and attractive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Jurisch , Jan-Michael Rost

We here report coherent reflection of thermal He atom beams from various microscopically rough surfaces at grazing incidence. For a sufficiently small normal component $k_z$ of the incident wave-vector of the atom the reflection probability…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-09-28 Bum Suk Zhao , H. Christian Schewe , Gerard Meijer , Wieland Schöllkopf

We investigate the resonance-enhanced few-photon ionization of atomic lithium by linearly polarized light whose frequency is tuned near the 2s-2p transition. Considering the direction of light polarization orthogonal to the quantization…

He atom scattering has been demonstrated to be a sensitive probe of the electron-phonon interaction parameter $\lambda$ at metal and metal-overlayer surfaces. Here it is shown that the theory linking $\lambda$ to the thermal attenuation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-26 G. Benedek , S. Miret-Artés , J. R. Manson , A. Ruckhofer , W. E. Ernst , A. Tamtögl

The Casimir-Polder interaction between an atom and a multilayered system composed of infinitely thin planes is considered using the zeta-function regularization approach with summation of the zero-point energies. As a prototype material,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Nail Khusnutdinov , Rashid Kashapov , Lilia M. Woods

Tommey and Hogan [Phys. Rev. A, 104, 033305 (2021)] have reported a matter-wave interference experiment using Rydberg atoms traveling through inhomogeneous electric fields at approximately 2000 m/s. Using a simplified model containing the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 D. Z. Chan , J. D. D. Martin

A simple model allows us to study the nonclassical behavior of slowly moving atoms interacting with a quantized field. Atom and field become entangled and their joint state can be identified as a mesoscopic "Schroedinger-cat". By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 F. Haug , M. Freyberger , K. Wodkiewicz

Motivated by the rich variety of complex periodic and quasi-periodic patterns found in systems such as two-frequency forced Faraday waves, we study the interaction of two spatially periodic modes that are nearly resonant. Within the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Higuera , H. Riecke , M. Silber

We study the emergence of collective scattering in the presence of dipole-dipole interactions when we illuminate a cold cloud of rubidium atoms with a near-resonant and weak intensity laser. The size of the atomic sample is comparable to…

We analyze the quantum entanglement between two interacting atoms trapped in a spherical harmonic potential. At ultra-cold temperature, ground state entanglement is generated by the dominated s-wave interaction. Based on a regularized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jia Wang , C. K. Law , M. -C. Chu

The evolution of the quantum wave packet describing an atom trapped in the surface-tip junction of the scanning tunneling microscope is investigated by using the time-dependent Schroedinger equation, and by a quasi-classical Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-21 M. Grigorescu

We show that interference phenomena plays a big role for the electron yield in ionization of atoms by an ultra-short laser pulse. Our theoretical study of single ionization of atoms driven by few-cycles pulses extends the photoelectron…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Diego Arbo , Emil Persson , Joachim Burgdoerfer

We characterize the effect of quantum interference on the line shapes and measured line positions in atomic spectra. These effects, which occur when the excited state splittings are of order the excited state line widths, represent an…

This third paper in this series continues the investigation of atom-field interactions in the presence of a conductor or a dielectric medium, focusing on quantum information related basic issues such as decoherence and entanglement. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

The behavior of levels near the threshold of the lower continuum in superheavy H-like atoms with $Z\alpha >1$, caused by the interaction $\Delta U_{AMM}$ of the electron's magnetic anomaly (AMM) dynamically screened at small distances $ \ll…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 A. A. Roenko , K. A. Sveshnikov

The interaction between a Rydberg electron and a neutral atom situated inside its extended orbit is described via contact interactions for each atom-electron scattering channel. In ultracold environments, these interactions lead to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Matthew T Eiles , Chris H Greene

We consider the system of two interacting atoms confined in axially symmetric harmonic trap. Within the pseudopotential approximation, we solve the Schroedinger equation exactly, discussing the limits of quasi-one and quasi-two-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Z. Idziaszek , T. Calarco

We have studied the extended Hubbard model in the atomic limit. The Hamiltonian analyzed consists of the effective on-site interaction U and the intersite density-density interactions Wij (both: nearest-neighbour and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Konrad Kapcia , Stanisław Robaszkiewicz

In low energy atom-surface scattering, it is possible for the atom to be reflected in a region of attractive potential with no classical turning point. This phenomenon has come to be known as quantum reflection and it can reduce the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 A. L. Harris