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Time double-slit interference experiments have been achieved and presented as complementary to spatial double-slit interference experiments, providing a further confirmation of the wave-particle duality. Numerical solutions of the free…
We present a renewed wave-packet analysis based on the following ideas: if a quantum one-particle scattering process and the corresponding state are described by an indivisible wave packet to move as a whole at all stages of scattering,…
In this work we revisit the Salecker-Wigner-Peres clock formalism and show that it can be directly applied to the phenomenon of tunneling. Then we apply this formalism to the determination of the tunneling time of a non relativistic…
Tunneling is an important physical process. The observation that particles surmount a high mountain in spite of the fact that they don't have the necessary energy cannot be explained by classical physics. However, this so called tunneling…
The purpose of this document is to describe the solution and implementation of the time-independent and time-dependent Schr\"odinger using pseudospectral methods. Currently, the description is for single particle systems interacting with a…
A Schr\"odinger bridge is the most probable time-dependent probability distribution that connects an initial probability distribution $w_{i}$ to a final one $w_{f}$. The problem has been solved and widely used for the case of simple…
Tunnelling is one of the most paradigmatic and evocative phenomena of quantum physics, underlying processes such as photosynthesis and nuclear fusion, as well as devices ranging from SQUID magnetometers to superconducting qubits for quantum…
Solutions to the Schr\"{o}dinger equation are examined for a particle inside a cylindrical trap of a circular time-dependent cross-section. Analytical expressions for energy and momentum expectation values are derived with respect to the…
In the present work we propose a generalization of tunneling time in parity and time ($\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$)-symmetric systems. The properties of tunneling time in $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric systems are studied with a simple…
For a time dependent Schr\"odinger equation, the scattering map is the map sending the asymptotic profile of solution as $t\to-\infty$ to its asymptotic profile as $t\to+\infty$. In this paper we show that, for certain class of metrics, the…
Linear combinations of complex gaussian functions, where the linear and nonlinear parameters are allowed to vary, are shown to provide an extremely flexible and effective approach for solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation in one…
How much time does a tunneling wave packet spent in traversing a barrier? Quantum mechanical calculations result in zero time inside a barrier . In the nineties analogous tunneling experiments with microwaves were carried out. The results…
The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation on a metric graph with time-dependent edge lengths, and the proper way to pose the problem so that the corresponding time evolution is unitary. We show…
A known limitation of time-dependent mean-field approaches is a lack of quantum tunneling for collective motions such as in sub-barrier fusion reactions. As a first step toward a solution, a time-dependent model is considered using a…
We propose a novel generative model for time series based on Schr{\"o}dinger bridge (SB) approach. This consists in the entropic interpolation via optimal transport between a reference probability measure on path space and a target measure…
Tunneling is one of the most bizarre phenomena in quantum mechanics. An attempt to understand it led to the next natural question of how long does a particle need to tunnel a barrier. The latter gave rise to several definitions such as the…
We study the tunneling zone solutions of a one-dimensional electrostatic potential for the relativistic (Dirac to Klein-Gordon) wave equation when the incoming wave packet exhibits the possibility of being almost totally transmitted through…
The tunneling of Gaussian wave packets has been investigated by numerically solving the one-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation. The shape of wave packets interacting with a square barrier has been monitored for various values of the barrier…
A temporally discrete Schroedinger time evolution equation is proposed for isotropic quantum cosmology coupled to a massless scalar source. The approach employs dynamically determined intrinsic time and produces the correct semiclassical…
We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…