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We investigate quantum mechanical Hamiltonians with explicit time dependence. We find a class of models in which an analogue of the time independent \S equation exists. Among the models in this class is a new exactly soluble model, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 John Rogers , Donald Spector

The electronic Schr\"odinger equation describes the motion of N electrons under Coulomb interaction forces in a field of clamped nuclei. The solutions of this equation, the electronic wavefunctions, depend on 3N variables, three spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Stephan Scholz , Harry Yserentant

The structure of time-dependent Gaussian solutions for the Kostin equation in dissipative quantum mechanics is analyzed. Expanding the generic external potential near the center of mass of the wave packet, one conclude that: the center of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 F. Haas , J. M. F. Bassalo , D. G. da Silva , A. B. Nassar , M. Cattani

This study explores the time-dependent Dunkl-Pauli oscillator in two dimensions. We constructed the Dunkl-Pauli Hamiltonian, which incorporates a time-varying magnetic field and a harmonic oscillator characterized by time-dependent mass and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) searches for gravitational waves (GWs) aim to detect a characteristic correlation pattern in the timing residuals of galactic millisecond pulsars. This pattern is described by the PTA overlap reduction function…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-03 Nina Cordes , Andrea Mitridate , Kai Schmitz , Tobias Schröder , Kim Wassner

Gaussian beams are asymptotically valid high frequency solutions to hyperbolic partial differential equations, concentrated on a single curve through the physical domain. They can also be extended to some dispersive wave equations, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-06-03 Hailiang Liu , Olof Runborg , Nicolay M. Tanushev

The ability of matter to be superposed at two different locations while being intrinsically connected by a quantum phase is among the most counterintuitive predictions of quantum physics. While such superpositions have been created for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-13 D. Kienzler , C. Flühmann , V. Negnevitsky , H. -Y. Lo , M. Marinelli , D. Nadlinger , J. P. Home

We study the spatial autocorrelation of energy eigenfunctions $\psi_n({\bf q})$ corresponding to classically chaotic systems in the semiclassical regime. Our analysis is based on the Weyl-Wigner formalism for the spectral average…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabricio Toscano , Caio H. Lewenkopf

In analogy to the harmonic analysis for the Poincar\'e group with its irreducible representations characterizing free particles, the harmonic analysis for a nonlinear spacetime model as homogenous space of the extended Lorentz group GL(C^2)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinrich Saller

We present measurements of the scale (bin-size) dependence of event-wise mean transverse momentum $<p_{t}>$ fluctuations for Au-Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV simulated with the Hijing-1.37 Monte Carlo. We invert those scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-15 Qingjun Liu , Duncan J. Prindle , Thomas A. Trainor

We present first elements of kinetic theory appropriate to the inhomogeneous phase of the HMF model. In particular, we investigate the case of strongly inhomogeneous distributions for $T\to 0$ and exhibit curious behaviour of the force…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. H. Chavanis

One form of big data are signals - time series of consecutive values. In physical experiments, billions of values can now be measured within a second. Signals of heart and brain in intensive care, as well as seismic waves, are measured with…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-24 Christoph Bandt

Wave packet revivals and fractional revivals are hallmark quantum interference phenomena that arise in systems with nonlinear energy spectra, and their signatures in expectation values of observables have been studied extensively in earlier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Ashish Kumar Patra , Saikumar Krithivasan

The spontaneous emission rate of excitons strongly confined in quantum dots is proportional to the overlap integral of electron and hole envelope wave functions. A common and intuitive interpretation of this result is that the spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Stobbe , J. M. Hvam , P. Lodahl

We revisit the theoretical modeling and simulation of a Gaussian stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) signal in a pulsar timing array (PTA). We show that the correlation between Fourier components of pulsar timing residuals can…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-16 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

We develop novel methods to compute auto-correlation functions, or power spectral densities, for chaotic dynamical systems generated by an inverse method whose starting point is an invariant distribution and a two-form. In general, the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-09-02 Gerald Guralnik , Zachary Guralnik , Cengiz Pehlevan

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

Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jiří J. L. Vaníček

A universal energy eigenvalue equation is proposed in this paper. It is proven that the unique set of eigenfunctions or preferred basis exists for any non-isolated sub-system. Applying the new eigenvalue equation to the relative motion of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-18 Shizhong Mei

An important parameter to characterize the scattering matrix S for quantum-chaotic scattering is the width Gamma_{corr} of the S-matrix autocorrelation function. We show that the "Weisskopf estimate" d/(2pi) sum_c T_c (where d is the mean…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2011-06-27 B. Dietz , A. Richter , H. A. Weidenmueller