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The charged wave packets with non-Gaussian spatial profiles are shown to possess intrinsic multipole moments. The magnetic dipole moment and the electric quadrupole moment are found for a wide class of the packets, including the vortex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-05 Dmitry Karlovets , Alexey Zhevlakov

In this paper we apply quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) to study the quantum evolution of a system of spinning particles and particles that have the electric dipole moments EDM in the rotating reference frame. The method presented is based on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Mariya Iv. Trukhanova

We study the energy spectrum and wave packet dynamics of electrons in a two-dimensional periodic potential subject to a perpendicular spatially modulated magnetic field. We observe avoided band crossings, metal-insulator transitions, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Björn Naundorf , Roland Ketzmerick

We consider the exchange of spin and orbital angular momenta between a circularly polarized Laguerre-Gaussian beam of light and a single atom trapped in a two-dimensional harmonic potential. The radiation field is treated classically but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ashok Muthukrishnan , C. R. Stroud

Recently interesting observations on electron vortex beams, which have angular momentum about the center of the vortex beams, have been made. We have shown that the basic features of the electron vortex beams in a uniform magnetic field are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Yeong Deok Han , Taeseung Choi

Some contracting or expanding stars are thought to host a large-scale magnetic field in their radiative interior. By interacting with the contraction-induced flows, such fields may significantly alter the rotational history of the star.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 B. Gouhier , L. Jouve , F. Lignières

The evolution of a charged lepton in the field of an electromagnetic plane wave can be described as a superposition of Volkov states. Here we demonstrate that imposing specific momentum correlations among Volkov states produces a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 D. Ramsey , J. McKeown , J. P. Palastro

We explore the quantum dynamics of heteronuclear atomic collisions in waveguides and demonstrate the existence of a novel mechanism for the resonant formation of polar molecules. The molecular formation probabilities can be tuned by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vladimir S. Melezhik , Peter Schmelcher

In this work we study the effects of collapse and revival as well as {\it Zitterbewegung} (ZB) phenomenon, for the relativistic electron wave packets, which are a superposition of the states with quantum numbers sharply peaked around some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Ya. Demikhovskii , G. M. Maksimova , A. A. Perov , A. V. Telezhnikov

We study the quantum dynamics of diatomic molecule driven by a circularly polarized resonant electric field. We look for a quantum effect due to classical chaos appearing due to the overlapping of nonlinear resonances associated to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. V. Lopez , J. G. T. Zanudo

We develop a formalism for treating coherent wave-packet dynamics of charge and spin carriers in degenerate and nearly degenerate bands. We consider the two-band case carefully in view of spintronics applications, where transitions between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitrie Culcer , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

We investigate the dynamics of dark-state polaritons in an atomic ensemble with ground-state degeneracy. A signal light pulse may be stored and retrieved from the atomic sample by adiabatic variation of the amplitude of a control field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Jenkins , D. N. Matsukevich , T. Chaneliere , A. Kuzmich , T. A. B. Kennedy

The characteristics of nonstatic quantum light waves in the coherent state in a static environment is investigated. It is shown that the shape of the wave varies periodically as a manifestation of its peculiar properties of nonstaticity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Jeong Ryeol Choi

The possibility of coherent radiation by molecular magnets is investigated. It is shown that to realize the coherent radiation, it is necessary to couple the considered sample to a resonant electric circuit. A theory for describing this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Quantum light spectroscopy, providing novel molecular information non-accessible by classical light, necessitates new computational tools when applied for complex molecular systems. We introduce two computational protocols for the molecular…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Bing Gu , Daniel Keefer , Shaul Mukamel

Photons carry one unit of angular momentum associated with their spin~\cite{Beth1936}. Structured vortex beams carry additional orbital angular momentum which can also be transferred to matter~\cite{Allen1992}. This extra twist has been…

We propose and demonstrate an experimental implementation for the observation of magnetic fields from spatial features of absorption profiles in a warm atomic vapor. A radially polarized vector beam that traverses an atomic vapor will…

We investigate the time evolution of momentum and position uncertainties for wave packets of arbitrary shape in at most quadratic potentials. We consider all possible cases of potentials and initial conditions. Doing so we see that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Natascha Riahi

It is demonstrated that in contrast to the well-known case with a quantum particle moving freely in a real line, the wave packets corresponding to the coherent states for a free quantum particle on a circle do not spread but develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Kowalski , J. Rembielinski

Recently we reported a series of numerical simulations proving that it is possible in principle to create an electronic wave packet and subsequent electronic motion in a neutral molecule photoexcited by a UV pump pulse within a few…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-10-24 P. Decleva , N. Quadri , A. Perveaux , D. Lauvergnat , F. Gatti , B. Lasorne , G. J. Halász , Á. Vibók