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We describe coupled electron-phonon systems semiclassically - Ehrenfest dynamics for the phonons and quantum mechanics for the electrons - using a classical Monte Carlo approach that determines the nonequilibrium response to a large pump…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-23 Marko D. Petrovic , Manuel Weber , James K. Freericks

Non-dispersive wave packet for massless fermions is formulated on the basis of squeezed coherent states that are put in a form of common eigenfunction for the Hamiltonian and the helicity operator, starting from the Dirac equation. The wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-09 Kelin Wang , Zexian Cao

In order to find an approximate solution to the Vlasov-Maxwell equation system describing the lower hybrid wave propagation in magnetic confined plasmas, the use of the WKB method leads to the ray tracing equations. The Hamiltonian…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Andrea Casolari , Alessandro Cardinali

We develop a formalism for treating coherent wave-packet dynamics of charge and spin carriers in degenerate and nearly degenerate bands. We consider the two-band case carefully in view of spintronics applications, where transitions between…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Dimitrie Culcer , Yugui Yao , Qian Niu

We consider a non-minimally coupled Einstein-Maxwell gravity with no $U(1)$ symmetry property to study stability of an electrostatic star via canonical quantization approach and obtain that the stability is free of gauge field effects. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Hossein Ghaffarnejad

We combine Maxwell's equations with Eulers's equation, related to a velocity field of an immaterial fluid, where the density of mass is replaced by a charge density. We come out with a differential system able to describe a relevant…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-26 Daniele Funaro

This paper presents a realistic model that describes radiation-matter interactions. This is achieved by a generalization of first quantization, where the Maxwell equations are interpreted as the electromagnetic component of the Schroedinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard A. Pakula

We consider a quantum cosmology with a massless background scalar field $\pb$ and adopt a wave packet as the wave function. This wave packet is a superposition of the WKB form wave functions, each of which has a definite momentum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshiaki Ohkuwa , Tetsuro Kitazoe

In this work we postulate that Schwinger's threshold for a dynamic electric field intensity to induce spatial nonlinearity is a special case and, more generally, it is the threshold field for both static and dynamic electric fields. Fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Dale M. Grimes , Craig A. Grimes

The semiclassical general formula for the probability of radiation of twisted photons by ultrarelativistic scalar and Dirac particles moving in the electromagnetic field of a general form is derived. This formula is the analog of the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 O. V. Bogdanov , P. O. Kazinski , G. Yu. Lazarenko

The iconic problem of photon modes in a spherical cavity has been discussed in the literature; however, conflicting results have been reported \cite{Heitler,Davydov_QuantumMechanics}. For this reason, the solution of this problem is worked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Thomas B. Bahder

In the first days of quantum mechanics Dirac pointed out an analogy between the time-dependent coefficients of an expansion of the Schr\"odinger equation and the classical position and momentum variables solving Hamilton's equations. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 J. S. Briggs , A. Eisfeld

We study the time-dependent scattering of a quantum mechanical wave packet at a barrier for energies larger than the barrier height, in the semi-classical regime. More precisely, we are interested in the leading order of the exponentially…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-04-24 Volker Betz , Alain Joye , Stefan Teufel

We report the propagation of fast wavepackets in classical non-Hermitian lattices, where the group velocity is controlled by the non-Hermiticity parameters, and can be made higher than in the Hermitian counterpart. Specifically, we obtain a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Yehonatan Benisty , Sayan Jana , Lea Sirota

We test the ability of semiclassical theory to describe quantitatively the revival of quantum wavepackets --a long time phenomena-- in the one dimensional quartic oscillator (a Kerr type Hamiltonian). Two semiclassical theories are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 F. Toscano , R. O. Vallejos , D. A. Wisniacki

It is shown that all of the basic properties of the hydrogen atom can be consistently described in terms of classical electrodynamics instead of taking the electron to be a particle; we consider an electrically charged classical wave field,…

General Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Sergey Rashkovskiy

Space-time modulation of electromagnetic parameters offers novel exciting possibilities for advanced field manipulations. In this study, we explore wave scattering from a time-varying interface characterized by a Lorentz-type dispersion…

A classical wave-particle entity (WPE) can be realized experimentally as a droplet walking on the free surface of a vertically vibrating liquid bath, with the droplet's horizontal walking motion guided by its self-generated wave field.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Joshua Perks , Rahil Valani

The numerical treatment of quantum mechanics in the semi-classical regime is known to be computationally demanding, due to the highly oscillatory behaviour of the wave function and its large spatial extension. A recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Christoph Nölle

We reexamine the general solution of a Schr\"{o}dinger equation in the presence of a time-dependent linear potential in configuration space based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld framework. For comparison, we also solve the problem in momentum space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Pi-Gang Luan , Chi-Shung Tang