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The evolution and propagation of a partially coherent matter wave (PCMW) is investigated theoretically by the correlation function method. The ABCD matrix formalism previously used for a fully coherent matter wave is extended to the PCMW…

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Nonlinear waves are studied in a mixture of liquid and gas bubbles. Influence of viscosity and heat transfer is taken into consideration on propagation of the pressure waves. Nonlinear evolution equations of the second and the third order…

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In this paper we study propagation of the high frequency electromagnetic waves in a curved spacetime. We discuss a so call spinoptics approach which generalizes a well known geometric optics approximation and allows one to take into account…

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The stationary eigenstates and eigenvalues for the ponderomotive potential of an optical crystal confined in a one-dimensional infinite square well are numerically obtained. The initial states of the incoming particles taken as Gaussian,…

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Using the kinematic constraints of classical bodies we construct the allowable wavefunctions corresponding to classical solids. These are shown to be long lived metastable states that are qualitatively far from eigenstates of the true…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Clifford E Chafin

We propose a method for arbitrary manipulations of a quantum wavepacket in an optical lattice by a suitable modulation of the lattice amplitude. A theoretical model allows to determine the modulation corresponding to a given wavepacket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-10 Quentin Thommen , Jean Claude Garreau , Véronique Zehnlé

The following development of the well-known "vertical modes and horizontal rays" approach for acoustic waves propagation in shallow water, introduced in different works, is studied. In this approach we study so-called space-time horizontal…

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Circular atomtronics is known to exhibit a uniform ground state, unlike elliptical atomtronics. In elliptical atomtronics, the matter wave tends to accumulate along the semimajor edges during its time dynamics, which we depict by the…

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We present a quantum open system theory of atom interferometers evolving in the quantized electromagnetic field bounded by an ideal conductor. Our treatment reveals an unprecedented feature of matter-wave propagation, namely the appearance…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-05 François Impens , Ryan O. Behunin , Claudio Ccapa Ttira , Paulo A. Maia Neto

We overview the properties of nonlinear guided waves and (bright and dark) spatial optical solitons in a periodic medium created by a sequence of linear and nonlinear layers. First, we consider a single layer with a cubic nonlinear response…

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This paper analyses the Hamiltonian model of drift waves which describes the chaotic transport of particles in the plasma confinement. With one drift wave the system is integrable and it presents stable orbits. When one wave is added the…

We study the cooperative optical coupling between regularly spaced atoms in a one-dimensional waveguide using decompositions to subradiant and superradiant collective excitation eigenmodes, direct numerical solutions, and analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Janne Ruostekoski , Juha Javanainen

We consider a simple model of lossless interaction between a two-level single atom and a standing-wave single-mode laser field which creates a one-dimensional optical lattice. Internal dynamics of the atom is governed by the laser field…

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In this article, we review the history, current status, physical mechanisms, experimental methods, and applications of nonlinear magneto-optical effects in atomic vapors. We begin by describing the pioneering work of Macaluso and Corbino…

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Complete Hamiltonian formalism is suggested for inertial waves in rotating incompressible fluid. Resonance three-wave interaction processes -- decay instability and confluence of two waves -- are shown to play a key role in the weakly…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-22 A. A. Gelash , V. S. L'vov , V. E. Zakharov

A hidden symmetry of the nonlinear wave equation is exploited to analyse the propagation of paraxial and uniform atom-laser beams in time-independent, quadratic and cylindrical potentials varying smoothly along the propagation axis. The…

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The cooperative modification of spontaneous radiative decay is a paradigmatic many-emitter effect in quantum optics. So far its experimental realization has involved interactions mediated by rapidly escaping photons that do not play an…

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Our understanding of collective spin fluctuation in materials relies largely on Heisenberg-type spin Hamiltonians. Implicit in these spin models is the atomic moment picture that in transverse spin dynamics the magnetization around an atom…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-13 Yihao Lin , Ji Feng

Nonlinear optical phenomena are typically local. Here we predict the possibility of highly nonlocal optical nonlinearities for light propagating in atomic media trapped near a nano-waveguide, where long-range interactions between the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Ephraim Shahmoon , Pjotrs Grisins , Hans Peter Stimming , Igor Mazets , Gershon Kurizki

The optical properties of sub-wavelength arrays of atoms or other quantum emitters have attracted significant interest recently. For example, the strong constructive or destructive interference of emitted light enables arrays to function as…

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