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If electromagnetic parameters of a medium vary in time, quantum light waves traveling in it become nonstatic. A recent report shows that such nonstatic waves can also appear even when the environment is static where the parameters of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-29 Jeong Ryeol Choi

The dynamics of an initially localized wavepacket is studied for the generalized nonlinear Schroedinger Equation with a random potential, where the nonlinearity term is |\psi|^p*\psi and "p" is arbitrary. Mainly short times for which the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-30 Hagar Veksler , Yevgeny Krivolapov , Shmuel Fishman

Wave packets in a system governed by a Hamiltonian with a generic nonlinear spectrum typically exhibit both full and fractional revivals. It is shown that the latter can be eliminated by inducing suitable geometric phases in the states, by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Seshadri , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan

In the context of providing a mathematical framework for the propagation of ultrasound waves in a random multiscale medium, we consider the scattering of classical waves (modeled by a divergence form scalar Helmholtz equation) by a bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Josselin Garnier , Laure Giovangigli , Quentin Goepfert , Pierre Millien

A novel statistical approach based on the Wigner transform is proposed for the description of partially incoherent optical wave dynamics in nonlinear media. An evolution equation for the Wigner transform is derived from a nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Hall , M. Lisak , D. Anderson , R. Fedele , V. E. Semenov

In this paper we present a new model for modeling the diffusion and relative dispersion of particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. We use an Heisenberg-like Hamiltonian to incorporate spatial correlations between fluid particles,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-18 Thomas Burgener , Dirk Kadau , Hans Jürgen Herrmann

We consider the propagation of wave packets for a one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a matrix-valued potential, in the semi-classical limit. For an initial coherent state polarized along some eigenvector, we prove that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-09-22 Rémi Carles , Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer

We consider a nonparametric Bayesian approach to estimate the diffusion coefficient of a stochastic differential equation given discrete time observations over a fixed time interval. As a prior on the diffusion coefficient, we employ a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Shota Gugushvili , Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Peter Spreij

The dynamics of two pairs of counter-propagating waves in two-component media is considered within the framework of two generally nonintegrable coupled Sine-Gordon equations. We consider the dynamics of weakly nonlinear wave packets, and…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 S. D. Griffiths , R. H. J. Grimshaw , K. R. Khusnutdinova

Patterns and nonlinear waves, such as spots, stripes, and rotating spirals, arise prominently in many natural processes and in reaction-diffusion models. Our goal is to compute boundaries between parameter regions with different prevailing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-03-11 Wenjun Zhao , Samuel Maffa , Björn Sandstede

We examine the general question of statistical changes experienced by ensembles of nonlinear random waves propagating in systems ruled by integrable equations. In our study that enters within the framework of integrable turbulence, we…

Optics · Physics 2016-08-24 S. Randoux , P. Walczak , M. Onorato , P. Suret

We derive statistical distributions for the degrees of freedom in wave packet molecular dynamics models. Specifically, a theory is developed for the width distributions of Gaussian wavepackets in both isotropic and anisotropic formulations.…

A general problem of $2\rightarrow N_f$ scattering is addressed with all the states being wave packets with arbitrary phases. Depending on these phases, one deals with coherent states in $(3+1)$ D, vortex particles with orbital angular…

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We develop a wavepacket approach to the diffraction of charged particles by a thin material target and we use the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectories to study various phenomena in this context. We find the form of the separator, i.e.the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-01 C. Efthymiopoulos , N. Delis , G. Contopoulos

Any pure quantum state can be equivalently represented by means of its wave function psi(q) or of the Fermi function g_F(q,p), with q and p coordinates and conjugate momenta of the system under investigation.We show that a Gaussian wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-14 Giuliano Benenti , Giuliano Strini

We consider a model of an electron in a crystal moving under the influence of an external electric field: Schroedinger's equation in one spatial dimension with a potential which is the sum of a periodic function $V$ and a smooth function…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alexander B. Watson , Michael I. Weinstein

We discuss four general features of force-free evolution: (1) The spatial spread of any packet changes with time in a very simple way. (2) Over sufficiently short periods of time (whose duration is related to the spread in momentum of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Andrews

Localization of relativistic particles have been of great research interests over many decades. We investigate the time evolution of the Gaussian wave packets governed by the one dimensional Dirac equation. For the free Dirac equation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Atis Yosprakob , Sujin Suwanna