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We show that dynamical localization for excited hydrogen atoms in magnetic and microwave fields takes place at quite low microwave frequency much lower than the Kepler frequency. The estimates of localization length are given for different…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Francesco Benvenuto , Giulio Casati , Dima L. Shepelyansky

Recent work has explored binary waveguide arrays in the long-wavelength, near-continuum limit, here we examine the opposite limit, namely the vicinity of the so-called anti-continuum limit. We provide a systematic discussion of states…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-29 Y. Shen , P. G. Kevrekidis , G. Srinivasan , A. B. Aceves

We prove that once one has the ingredients of a ``single-energy multiscale analysis (MSA) result'' on the $\mathbb{Z}^d$ lattice, several spectral and dynamical localization results can be derived, the most prominent being strong dynamical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Nishant Rangamani , Xiaowen Zhu

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of liquid crystal textures in a two-dimensional nematic under applied electric fields, using numerical simulations performed using a publicly available LIquid CRystal Algorithm (LICRA) developed by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 B. F. de Oliveira , P. P. Avelino , F. Moraes , J. C. R. E. Oliveira

Nematic drops suspended in the isotropic phase of the same substance were subjected to alternating electrical fields of varying frequency. The system was carefully kept in the isotropic-nematic coexistance region, which was broadened due to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-27 Günter K. Auernhammer , Jinyu Zhao , Beate Ullrich , Doris Vollmer

Light scattering techniques are widely used in many fields of condensed and sof t matter physics. Usually these methods are based on the study of the scattered light in the far field. Recently, a new family of near field detection schemes…

Using time-dependent current-density functional theory, we derive analytically the dynamical exchange-correlation correction to the DC conductance of nanoscale junctions. The correction pertains to the conductance calculated in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Na Sai , Michael Zwolak , Giovanni Vignale , Massimiliano Di Ventra

The use of geometrical constraints opens many new perspectives in photonics and in fundamental studies of nonlinear waves. By implementing surface structures in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers as manifolds for curved space, we…

Nonlinear chiral light sources are crucial for emerging applications in chiroptics, including ultrafast spin dynamics and quantum state manipulation. However, achieving precise and dynamic control over nonlinear optical chirality with…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 Yiwen Liu , Chao Meng , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi , Fei Ding

The localization of waves in non-periodic media is a universal phenomenon, occurring in a variety of different quantum and classical systems, including condensed-matter, Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices, quantum chaotic…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-12-09 Y. Lahini , R. Pugatch , F. Pozzi , M. Sorel , R. Morandotti , N. Davidson , Y. Silberberg

We observe linear and nonlinear light localization at the edges and in the corners of truncated moir\'e lattices created by the superposition of periodic mutually-twisted at Pythagorean angles square sublattices. Experimentally exciting…

It is demonstrated that the oscillations in the width of the momentum distribution of atoms moving in a phase-modulated standing light field, as a function of the modulation amplitude, are correlated with the variation of the chaotic layer…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ricardo Chacon

The phenomenon of quantum antiresonance (QAR), i.e., exactly periodic recurrences in quantum dynamics, is studied in a large class of nonintegrable systems, the modulated kicked rotors (MKRs). It is shown that asymptotic exponential…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Dana , E. Eisenberg , N. Shnerb

The localization properties of electrons moving in a plane perpendicular to a spatially-correlated static magnetic field of random amplitude and vanishing mean are investigated. We apply the method of level statistics to the eigenvalues and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Potempa , L. Schweitzer

We measured the local density of states (LDOS) of a quasi two-dimensional (2D) electron system near point defects on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) with scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy. Differential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Niimi , H. Kambara , T. Matsui , D. Yoshioka , Hiroshi Fukuyama

The phenomenon of electronic wave localization through disorder was introduced by Anderson in 1958 in the context of electron transport in solids. It remains an important area of fundamental and applied research. Localization of all wave…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-10-12 K. J. Kemp , S. Barker , J. Guthrie , B. Hagood , M. D. Havey

Photonic lattices have emerged as a promising approach to localize light in space, for example, through topologically protected edge states and Aharonov-Bohm caging. They are of particular importance in the study of flat band systems via…

It is shown that optimum control of dynamical localization (quantum suppression of classical diffusion) in the context of ultracold atoms in periodically shaken optical lattices subjected to time-periodic forces having equidistant zeros…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-17 F. Revuelta , R. Chacón , F. Borondo

We consider quantum walks defined on arbitrary infinite graphs, parameterized by a family of scattering matrices attached to the vertices. Multiplying each scattering matrix by an i.i.d. random phase, we obtain a random scattering quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Alain Joye , Andreas Schaefer , Simone Warzel

The dynamics of electron injection in the direct laser acceleration (DLA) regime was investigated by means of three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations and theoretical analysis. It is shown that when an ultra-intense laser pulse…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 K. Jiang , C. T. Zhou , T. W. Huang , L. B. Ju , H. Zhang , B. Qiao , S. C. Ruan