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This paper intends to provide a theoretical basis for the unification of the integer and the fractional quantum Hall effects. Guided by concepts and theories of quantum mechanics and with the solution of the Pauli equation in a magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-08 Shuming Long , Jianhua Wang , Kang Li , Yi Yuan

In this study the general formula for differential and integral operations of fractional calculus via fractal operators by the method of cumulative diminution and cumulative growth is obtained. The under lying mechanism in the success of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Fevzi Buyukkilic , Zahide Ok Bayrakdar , Dogan Demirhan

The fractional Fokker-Planck equation for subdiffusion in time-dependent force fields is derived from the underlying continuous time random walk. Its limitations are discussed and it is then applied to the study of subdiffusion under the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-02 E. Heinsalu , M. Patriarca , I. Goychuk , P. Hanggi

Weyl functions conveniently describe the evolution of wave coherences in periodic or quadratic potentials. In this work we use Weyl functions to study the ``Talbot-Lau effect'' in a time-domain matter-wave interferometer. A ``displacement…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-12-09 Saijun Wu , Pierre S. Striehl , Mara G. Prentiss

This paper is devoted to the mathematical analysis of a time-domain electromagnetic scattering by periodic structures which are known as diffraction gratings. The scattering problem is reduced equivalently into an initial-boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Yixian Gao , Peijun Li

Based on the Riemann- and Caputo definition of the fractional derivative we use the fractional extensions of the standard rotation group SO(3) to construct a higher dimensional representation of a fractional rotation group with mixed…

General Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Richard Herrmann

The Wigner function W(q,p) is formulated as a phase-space path integral, whereby its sign oscillations can be seen to follow from interference between the geometrical phases of the paths. The approach has similarities to the path-centroid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. H. Samson

We report on the formation of moir{\'e} patterns when observing the diffraction of surface plasmons by periodic gratings of finite extent with an imaging spectrometer that maps the light emission as a function of the wavelength and the…

The Weyl-Wigner representation of quantum mechanics allows one to map the density operator in a function in phase space - the Wigner function - which acts like a probability distribution. In the context of statistical mechanics, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Marcos Gil de Oliveira , Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida

The aim of this paper is to numerically solve a diffusion differential problem having time derivative of fractional order. To this end we propose a collocation-Galerkin method that uses the fractional splines as approximating functions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Laura Pezza , Francesca Pitolli

The images of many distant galaxies are displaced, distorted and often multiplied by the presence of foreground massive galaxies near the line of sight; the foreground galaxies act as gravitational lenses. Commonly, the lens equation, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Simonetta Frittelli , Thomas P. Kling , Ezra T. Newman

Fermat's principle applied to a flat metric in the plane yields the phase of a Bessel function in the periodic domain for a constant index of refraction. Gravitational forces cause the index of refraction to vary and lead to a modified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 B. H. Lavenda

Methods from the geometry of nonholonomic manifolds and Lagrange-Finsler spaces are applied in fractional calculus with Caputo derivatives and for elaborating models of fractional gravity and fractional Lagrange mechanics. The geometric…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-03 Dumitru Baleanu , Sergiu I. Vacaru

Based on the requirement of covariance, we propose a new approach for generalizing fractional calculus in multi-dimensional space. As a first application we calculate an approximation for the ground state energy of the fractional…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Richard Herrmann

The eigenstates of interacting electrons in the fractional quantum Hall phase typically form fairly well defined bands in the energy space. We show that the composite fermion theory gives insight into the origin of these bands and provides…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 G. Dev , J. K. Jain

In this paper, we derive the time-fractional Cahn-Hilliard equation from continuum mixture theory with a modification of Fick's law of diffusion. This model describes the process of phase separation with nonlocal memory effects. We analyze…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-10 Marvin Fritz , Mabel L. Rajendran , Barbara Wohlmuth

An analytical method for diffraction of a plane electromagnetic wave at periodically-modulated graphene sheet is presented. Both interface corrugation and periodical change in the optical conductivity are considered. Explicit expressions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. M. Slipchenko , M. L. Nesterov , L. Martin-Moreno , A. Yu. Nikitin

A conceptual difficulty in formulating the density functional theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect is that while in the standard approach the Kohn-Sham orbitals are either fully occupied or unoccupied, the physics of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-12 Jianyun Zhao , Manisha Thakurathi , Manish Jain , Diptiman Sen , J. K. Jain

The change of the effective dimension of spacetime with the probed scale is a universal phenomenon shared by independent models of quantum gravity. Using tools of probability theory and multifractal geometry, we show how dimensional flow is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-16 Gianluca Calcagni

We study both experimentally and theoretically, considering bosonic atoms in a periodic potential, the influence of interactions in a Talbot interferometer. While interactions decrease the contrast of the revivals, we find that over a wide…