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A method of a non-stationary description of tunneling of a particle through the one-dimensional and spherically symmetric rectangular barriers on the basis of analisis of multiple internal reflections of wave packets in relation on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Vladislav S. Olkhovsky , Sergei P. Maydanyuk

We discuss a model in which a quantum particle passes through $\delta$ potentials arranged in an increasingly sparse way. For infinitely many barriers we derive conditions, expressed in terms ergodic properties of wave function phases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Taksu Cheon , Pavel Exner , Petr Seba

We examine an extension to the theory of Gaussian wave packet dynamics in a one-dimensional potential by means of a sequence of time dependent displacement and squeezing transformations. Exact expressions for the quantum dynamics are found,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. M. Garraway

Unbound wave packets propagating to macroscopic space and time coordinates become proportional to their (Fourier transform) momentum distribution at earlier times whereby the asymptotic coordinates and the initial momenta are connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-28 James M. Feagin , John S. Briggs

The theory of linear wave structures generated in Bose-Einstein condensate flow past an obstacle is developed. The shape of wave crests and dependence of amplitude on coordinates far enough from the obstacle are calculated. The results are…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. G. Gladush , A. M. Kamchatnov

We report experimental observations of traveling waves in a pure fluid with a free surface situated in a long container submitted to a horizontal temperature gradient perpendicular to its large extension. Above a critical value of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Daviaud , J. M. Vince

The fastest tunneling response in double barrier resonant structures is investigated by considering explicit analytic solutions of the time dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation. For cutoff initial plane waves, we find that the earliest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto Romo , Jorge Villavicencio

Others have solved the Schr\"odinger equation for a one-dimensional model having a square potential barrier in free-space by requiring an incident and a reflected wave in the semi-infinite pre-barrier region, two opposing waves in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Mark J. Hagmann

We describe and analyze the mean transport due to transient progressive waves, including breaking waves. The waves are packets and are generated with a boundary-forced air-water two-phase Navier Stokes solver. The analysis is done in the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-02 Juan M. Restrepo , Jorge M. Ramirez

We study the time behavior of wave functions involved in tunneling through a smooth potential barrier in one dimension in the semiclassical limit. We determine the leading order component of the wave function that tunnels. It is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vasile Gradinaru , George A. Hagedorn , Alain Joye

Modified scattering phenomena are encountered in the study of global properties for nonlinear dispersive partial differential equations in situations where the decay of solutions at infinity is borderline and scattering fails just barely.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Mihaela Ifrim , Daniel Tataru

Many approximate solutions of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation can be formulated as exact solutions of a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with an effective Hamiltonian operator depending on the state of the system. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-26 Jiří J. L. Vaníček

Analytic solutions to the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for cutoff wave initial conditions are used to investigate the time evolution of the transmitted probability density for tunneling. For a broad range of values of the potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gaston Garcia-Calderon , Jorge Villavicencio

We consider quantum particle or Gaussian polymer confinement between two surfaces and in cylinders with sinusoidal undulations. In terms of the variational method, we show that the quantum mechanical wave equations have lower ground state…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomonari Dotera , Yasuo Y. Suzuki

The problem of the Klein tunneling across a potential barrier in bi-layer graphene is addressed. The electron wave functions are treated as massive chiral particles. This treatment allows us to compute the statistical complexity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-25 Jaime Sañudo , Ricardo Lopez-Ruiz

We study the evolution of a wave packet impinging onto a one dimensional potential barrier. The transmission and reflection times discussed in the literature for stationary states do not correspond to the times required for the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrea Begliuomini , Luciano Bracci

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Guenter Nimtz

We develop a quantum landscape approach to characterize the long-time behavior of wave packet spreading in linear open quantum systems. Instead of treating diffusion, localization, and collapse of the wave packet as separate dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Kang Xu , Miao-Miao Yi , Zi-Hong Yan , C. P. Sun

All known realizations of optical wave packets that accelerate along their propagation axis, such as Airy wave packets in dispersive media or wave-front-modulated X-waves, exhibit a constant acceleration; that is, the group velocity varies…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-03 Layton A. Hall , Murat Yessenov , Ayman F. Abouraddy

An upper bound on the capacity of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) Gaussian fading channels is derived under peak amplitude constraints. The upper bound is obtained borrowing concepts from convex geometry and it extends to MIMO…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Antonino Favano , Marco Ferrari , Maurizio Magarini , Luca Barletta