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We analyze a double-slit experiment when the interfering particle is "mesoscopic" and one endeavors to obtain Welcher Weg information by shining light on it. We derive a compact expression for the visibility of the interference pattern:…

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Using the Wigner distribution function, we analyze the behavior on phase space of generalized coherent states associated with the Morse potential (Morse-like coherent states). Within the f-deformed oscillator formalism, such states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 O. de los Santos-Sánchez , J. Récamier

It was also shown recently that GUP predicts potentially measurable corrections to the `doubling time' of freely moving Gaussian atomic and molecular wavepackets with a favorable combination of three parameters, {\it e.g.} mass, initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-08 Saurya Das , Sujoy K. Modak

In general, space-time wave packets with correlations between transverse spatial fields and temporal frequency spectra can lead to unique spatiotemporal dynamics, thus enabling control of the instantaneous light properties. However,…

Quantum states extended over a large volume in phase space have oscillations from quantum interferences in their Wigner distribution on scales smaller than $\hbar$ [W.H. Zurek, Nature {\bf 412}, 712 (2001)]. We investigate the influence of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ph. Jacquod , I. Adagideli , C. W. J. Beenakker

We consider a problem of superconductivity coexistence with the spin-density-wave order in disordered multiband metals. It is assumed that random variations of the disorder potential on short length scales render the interactions between…

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A mesoscopic system of indirect dipolar bosons trapped by a harmonic potential is considered. The system has a number of physical realizations including dipole excitons, atoms with large dipolar moment, polar molecules, Rydberg atoms in…

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We present a protocol based on the interplay between superradiance and superabsorption to achieve the coherent deflection of an atomic sample due to the momentum transfer from the atoms to a cavity field. The coherent character of this…

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An electromagnetic wave-packet propagating in a linear, homogeneous, and isotropic medium changes shape while its envelope travels with different velocities at different points in spacetime. In general, a wave-packet can be described as a…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-26 Masud Mansuripur

Spatial fluctuations of the effective pairing interaction between electrons in a superconductor induce variations of the order parameter which in turn lead to significant changes in the density of states. In addition to an overall reduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Julia S. Meyer , B. D. Simons

We show that the key problems of quantum measurement theory, namely the reduction of the wave packet of a microsystem and the specification of its quantum state by a macroscopic measuring instrument, may be rigorously resolved within the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Geoffrey Sewell

We study the spatio-temporal evolution of wave packets in one-dimensional quasiperiodic lattices which localize linear waves. Nonlinearity (related to two-body interactions) has destructive effect on localization, as recently observed for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-02-26 Marco Larcher , Tetyana V. Laptyeva , Joshua D. Bodyfelt , Franco Dalfovo , Michele Modugno , Sergej Flach

Wave-packet interference is investigated within the complex quantum Hamilton-Jacobi formalism using a hydrodynamic description. Quantum interference leads to the formation of the topological structure of quantum caves in space-time Argand…

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Macroscopic Wigner islands present an interesting complementary approach to explore the properties of two-dimensional confined particles systems. In this work, we characterize theoretically and experimentally the interaction between their…

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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

The coherent interaction between free electrons and optical near-fields enables the active modulation of electron wave packets, a mechanism central to photon-induced near-field electron microscopy (PINEM). While existing theories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mads Brøndum Carlsen , Lars Bojer Madsen

In this paper we study the relations of Planck-Einstein-de Broglie type for the wave packets. We assume that the wave packet is a possible model of particle . When studying the behaviour of the wave packet for standing waves, in relation to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Ion Simaciu , Zoltan Borsos , Gheorghe Dumitrescu , Nan Georgeta

The structural properties of static, jammed packings of monodisperse spheres in the vicinity of the jamming transition are investigated using large-scale computer simulations. At small wavenumber $k$, we argue that the anomalous behavior in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-08-02 Leonardo E. Silbert , Moises Silbert

In weakly nonlinear dispersive wave systems, long-time dynamics are typically governed by time resonances, where wave phases evolve coherently due to exact frequency matching. Recent advances in spatio-temporal spectrum measurements,…

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