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We study super Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in a shaken lattice potential, subjected to a harmonically modulated mean-field interaction. Usually, any interaction leads to the decay of the wave packet and its super Bloch…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-01-22 Elena Díaz , Alberto García Mena , Kunihiko Asakura , Christopher Gaul

Gaussian wavepackets are a popular tool for semiclassical analyses of classically chaotic systems. We demonstrate that they are extremely powerful in the semiquantal analysis of such systems, too, where their dynamics can be recast in an…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Arjendu K. Pattanayak , William C. Schieve

The revival structure of wave packets is examined for quantum systems having energies that depend on two nondegenerate quantum numbers. For such systems, the evolution of the wave packet is controlled by two classical periods and three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Robert Bluhm , Alan Kostelecky , Bogdan Tudose

Non-Hermitian (NH) systems have attracted great attention due to their exotic phenomena beyond Hermitian domains. Here we study the wave-packet dynamics in general one-dimensional NH lattices and uncover several unexpected phenomena. The…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yanyan He , Tomoki Ozawa

We develop a formalism for mapping the exact dynamics of an ensemble of disordered quantum systems onto the dynamics of a single particle propagating along a semi-infinite lattice, with parameters determined by the probability distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Hallmann Óskar Gestsson , Charlie Nation , Alexandra Olaya-Castro

We examine the dynamics of ultracold atoms held in optical lattice potentials. By controlling the switching of a periodic driving potential we show how a phase-induced renormalization of the intersite tunneling can be used to produce…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-08-29 C. E. Creffield , F. Sols

We investigate the quantum dynamics of a one-dimensional tight-binding lattice driven by a spatially quadratic and time-periodic potential. Both Hermitian ($J_1 = J_2$) and non-Hermitian ($J_1 \neq J_2$) hopping regimes are analyzed. Within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 J. Cao , H. Shen , R. Wang , X. Z. Zhang

In most systems, its division into interacting constituent elements gives rise to a natural network structure. Analyzing the dynamics of these elements and the topology of these natural graphs gave rise to the fields of (nonlinear) dynamics…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Sophia R. Sklan , Baowen Li

A new method for the study of resonant behavior - using wave-packet dynamics - is presented, based on the powerful window operator technique. The method is illustrated and quantified by application to the astrophysically-important example…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-14 Alexis Diaz-Torres , Jeffrey A. Tostevin

The semiclassical description of the dynamics of wave packets in periodic potentials and subject to an applied force relies on the concepts of effective mass and anomalous transport. This picture is valid if the force changes slowly in time…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-11 Y. Fang , Federico Duque-Gomez , J. E. Sipe

Stroboscopic wavepacket basis sets [P. Bokes, F. Corsetti, R. W. Godby, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 046402 (2008)] are specifically tailored for a description of time-dependent processes in extended systems like non-periodic geometries of various…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-27 P. Bokes

Synthetic photonic lattice with temporally controlled potentials is a versatile platform for realizing wave dynamics associated with physical areas of optics and quantum physics. Here, discrete optics in one-dimensionally synthetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Zengrun Wen , Kaile Wang , Baole Lu , Xinyuan Qi , Haowei Chen , Jintao Bai

In this paper, we study electron wavepacket dynamics in electric and magnetic fields. We rigorously derive the semiclassical equations of electron dynamics in electric and magnetic fields. We do it both for free electron and electron in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Navin Khaneja

A parametric beam lattice model is formulated to analyse the propagation properties of elastic in-plane waves in an auxetic material based on a hexachiral topology of the periodic cell, equipped with inertial local resonators. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-05-04 Andrea Bacigalupo , Marco Lepidi , Giorgio Gnecco , Luigi Gambarotta

We examine an extension to the theory of Gaussian wave packet dynamics in a one-dimensional potential by means of a sequence of time dependent displacement and squeezing transformations. Exact expressions for the quantum dynamics are found,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Garraway

We present a wave packet analysis of a class of possibly degenerate parabolic equations with variable coefficients. As a consequence, we prove local wellposedness of the corresponding Cauchy problem in spaces of low regularity, namely the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-02-19 Fabio Nicola

Metamaterials are artificial composite structures designed for controlling waves or fields, and exhibit interaction phenomena that are unexpected on the basis of their chemical constituents. These phenomena are encoded in effective material…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-21 Mihai Caleap , Bruce W Drinkwater

Much having learned about Floquet dynamics of pseudospin-$1/2$ system namely, graphene, we here address the stroboscopic properties of a periodically kicked {three-band fermionic system such as $\alpha$-T$_3$ lattice. This particular model…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Lakpa Tamang , Tanay Nag , Tutul Biswas

We study the dynamics of superposed wave packets in a specific nonlinear Hamiltonian which models the wave packet propagation in Kerr-like media and the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates. We show the dependence of initial wave packet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 M. Rohith , C. Sudheesh

We study nonlinear dynamics of superposition of quantum wavepackets in various systems such as Kerr medium, Morse oscillator and bosonic Josephson junction. The prime reason behind this study is to find out how the superposition of states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-12 S. Kannan , M. Rohith , C. Sudheesh