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We compute tunneling in a quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions for a field potential $U(\Phi)$ of the asymmetric double well type. The system is localized initially in the ``false vacuum''. We consider the case of a {\em compact space}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Baacke , N. Kevlishvili

The concepts of quantile position, trajectory, and velocity are defined. For a tunneling quantum mechanical wave packet, it is proved that its quantile position always stays behind that of a free wave packet with the same initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Brandt , H. D. Dahmen , E. Gjonaj , T. Stroh

The simplest one-dimensional model for the studying of non-trivial geometrical effects is a ring shaped device which is formed by joining two arms. We explore the possibility to model such a system as a two level system (TLS). Of particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-05 Itamar Sela , Doron Cohen

We develop the semiclassical method of complex trajectories in application to chaotic dynamical tunneling. First, we suggest a systematic numerical technique for obtaining complex tunneling trajectories by the gradual deformation of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. G. Levkov , A. G. Panin , S. M. Sibiryakov

We develop a microscopic theory for biasing the quantum trajectories of an open quantum system, which renders rare trajectories typical. To this end we consider a discrete-time quantum dynamics, where the open system collides sequentially…

This manuscript gathers and subsumes a long series of works on using QW to simulate transport phenomena. Quantum Walks (QWs) consist of single and isolated quantum systems, evolving in discrete or continuous time steps according to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Giuseppe Di Molfetta

We investigate quantum tunneling in smooth symmetric and asymmetric double-well potentials. Exact solutions for the ground and first excited states are used to study the dynamics. We introduce Wigner's quasi-probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-11 Dimitris Kakofengitis , Ole Steuernagel

Recent realization of an intense quantum light, namely bright squeezed vacuum, opened a new perspective on quantum light-matter interaction. Several theoretical works have appeared based on coherent state expansions of quantum state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Sangwon Kim , Seongjin Ahn , Denis V. Seletskiy , Andrey S. Moskalenko

Nelson's stochastic mechanics formulates quantum dynamics as a real-time conservative diffusion process in which a particle undergoes Brownian-like motion with a fluctuation amplitude fixed by Planck's constant. While being mathematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Danilo F. Schafaschek , Giovani L. Vasconcelos , Antônio M. S. Macêdo

We explore dissipative quantum tunnelling, a phenomenon central to various physical and chemical processes, using a double-well potential model. This paper aims to bridge gaps in understanding the crossover from thermal activation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Robson Christie , Jessica Eastman

We consider a minisuperspace model for a closed universe with small and positive cosmological constant, filled with a massive scalar field conformally coupled to gravity. In the quantum version of this model, the universe may undergo a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Levkov , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We have calculated the linear conductance associated with tunneling of individual quasiparticles of primary quantum Hall liquids with filling factors $\nu =1/(2m+1)$ through a system of two antidots in series. On-site Coulomb interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dmitri V. Averin , James A. Nesteroff

Traditionally quantum tunneling in a static SQUID is studied on the basis of a classical trajectory in imaginary time under a two-dimensional potential barrier. The trajectory connects a potential well and an outer region crossing their…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-18 B. Ivlev

Tunneling in a many-body system appears as one of the novel implications of quantum physics, in which particles move in space under an otherwise classically-forbidden potential barrier. Here, we theoretically describe the quantum dynamics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-01 Anal Bhowmik , Sudip Kumar Halder , Ofir E. Alon

We present the mathematical model and numerical calculation results for the tunneling of the wave function in a time-periodic double-well potential. The bi-quadratic potential of a double-well form is used. Based on a mathematical model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Vladimir Dubinko , Oleksandr Mazmanishvili

We employ the multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree method for bosons (MCTDHB) in order to investigate the correlated non-equilibrium quantum dynamics of two bosons confined in two colliding and uniformly accelerated Gaussian wells. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-22 Fabian Köhler , Peter Schmelcher

In this work, the Thermodynamic Geometry (TG) of quantum fluids (QF) is analyzed. We present results for two models. The first one is a quantum hard-sphere fluid (QHS) whose Helmholtz free energy is obtained from Path Integrals Monte Carlo…

We investigate relativistic wavepacket dynamics for an electron tunneling through a potential barrier employing space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) equations. We prove by linking the QFT property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Alkhateeb , X. Gutierrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski , A. Matzkin

Complex quantum trajectory approach, which arose from a modified de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics, has attracted much attention in recent years. The exact complex trajectories for the Eckart potential barrier and the soft…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Kiran Mathew , Moncy V. John

Via computer simulations of the standard binary Lennard-Jones glass former we have obtained in a systematic way a large set of close-by pairs of minima on the potential energy landscape, i.e. double-well potentials (DWP). We analyze this…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Reinisch , A. Heuer