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Oceanic internal waves often have curvilinear fronts and propagate over various currents. We present the first study of long weakly-nonlinear internal ring waves in a three-layer fluid in the presence of a background linear shear current.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-07-01 D. Tseluiko , N. S. Alharthi , R. Barros , K. R. Khusnutdinova

This letter establishes a firm relationship between classical nonlinear resonances and the phenomenon of dynamical tunneling. It is shown that the classical phase space with its hierarchy of resonance islands completely characterizes…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Srihari Keshavamurthy

Tunneling is often claimed to be the key mechanism underlying possible speedups in quantum optimization via quantum annealing (QA), especially for problems featuring a cost function with tall and thin barriers. We present and analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Siddharth Muthukrishnan , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

A simple model of a quantum clock is applied to the old and controversial problem of how long a particle takes to tunnel through a quantum barrier. The model I employ has the advantage of yielding sensible results for energy eigenstates,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. C. W. Davies

We use an adiabatic approximation in terms of instantaneous resonances to study the steady-state and time-dependent transport properties of interacting electrons in biased resonant tunneling heterostructures. This approach leads, in a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Carlo Presilla , Johannes Sjöstrand

Relativistic nuclear collisions data on two-particle correlations exhibit structures as function of relative azimuthal angle and rapidity. A unified description of these near-side and away-side structures is proposed for low to moderate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-19 Rone Peterson G. Andrade , Frederique Grassi , Yogiro Hama , Wei-Liang Qian

A non-stationary method for tunneling description of non-relativistic particles and photons through a barrier on the basis of consideration of the multiple internal reflections of vawe packets in relation of barrier boundaries is presented.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei P. Maydanyuk , Vladislav S. Olkhovsky , Alexander K. Zaichenko

The fundamental problem of how tunneling in thermal medium is completed is addressed, and a new time scale of order 1/friction for its termination, which is usually much shorter than the Hubble time, is pointed out. Enhanced non-linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Yoshimura

A canonical structure compatible with the action of the Lorentz group can be obtained considering the energy and time as conjugate variables of an extended phase space. Scalar probability waves, describing free relativistic particles, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-04 M. Grigorescu

This article motivates and presents the scale relativistic approach to non-differentiability in mechanics and its relation to quantum mechanics. It stems from the scale relativity proposal to extend the principle of relativity to…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-20 Mei-Hui Teh , Laurent Nottale , Stephan LeBohec

Experimental particle spectra can be successfully described by power-law tailed energy distributions characteristic to canonical equilibrium distributions associated to R\'enyi's or Tsallis' entropy formula - over a wide range of energies,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-06-27 T. S. Biró , E. Molnár

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

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

The objective of this work is to understand how the characteristics of relativistic MHD turbulence may differ from those of nonrelativistic MHD turbulence. We accomplish this by studying the ideal invariants in the relativistic case and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 David Garrison , Phu Nguyen

The tunnelling of virtual matter-antimatter pairs from the quantum vacuum in multidimensions is studied. We consider electric backgrounds as a linear combination of a spatial Sauter field and, interchangeably, certain weaker time dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Ibrahim Akal , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick

Tunneling of a quasibound state is a non-smooth process in the entangled many-body case. Using time-evolving block decimation, we show that repulsive (attractive) interactions speed up (slow down) tunneling, which occurs in bursts. While…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-31 Diego A. Alcala , Joseph A. Glick , Lincoln D. Carr

We make a critical comparison of relativistic and non-relativistic classical and quantum mechanics of particles in inertial frames and of the open problems in particle localization at the two levels. The solution of the problems of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Horace W. Crater , Luca Lusanna

In the dynamics generated by the suspension bridge equation, traveling waves are an essential feature. The existing literature focuses primarily on the idealized one-dimensional case, while traveling structures in two spatial dimensions…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Lindsey van der Aalst , Jan Bouwe van den Berg , Jean-Philippe Lessard

We present a path - integral approach to treat a 2D model of a quantum bifurcation. The model potential has two equivalent minima separated by one or two saddle points, depending on the value of a continuous parameter. Tunneling is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. Benderskii , E. V. Vetoshkin , E. I. Kats , L. D. Landau , H. P. Trommsdorff

We compare Hawking radiation in a collapse background with Schwinger pair creation in an electric field. The comparison is driven by the presence of an analogue horizon in the Schwinger case, which causally divides spacetime for classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Anton Ilderton , Karthik Rajeev