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An electron in quantum confinement takes on a discrete energy spectrum which is defined based on the solution to the Schrodinger Equation for a given potential. Well defined closed-form energy spectra are known for the particle in a box,…

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A spinless nonrelativistic quantum particle on the curved surface of a homogeneous spherocylindrical capsule is considered. We apply Costa's formalism to solve the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with only a confined potential forcing the particle…

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Electron capture and emission by Coulomb scattering in self-assembled quantum dot (QD) devices is studied theoretically. While the dependence of the Coulomb scattering (Auger) rates on the local wetting layer electron density has been a…

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We propose an approach for quantum simulation of electron-phonon interactions using Rydberg states of cold atoms and ions. We show how systems of cold atoms and ions can be mapped onto electron-phonon systems of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger…

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It is generally assumed that naked singularities must be physically excluded, as they could otherwise introduce unpredictable influences in their future null cones. Considering geodesics for a naked Reissner-Nordstrom singularity, it is…

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We present a way to manipulate an electron trapped in a layered quantum dot based on near-threshold properties of one-body potentials. We show that potentials with a simple global parameter allows the manipulation of the wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-10 Alejandro Ferrón , Pablo Serra , Omar Osenda

Here the ionization and high harmonic generation in Hydrogen and Helium by using quantum (hydrodynamic) trajectories is analyzed theoretically. The quantum trajectories allow a self-contained treatment of the electron exchange and…

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The radiation spectrum of a classical charged particle (electron) moving in the de Sitter universe, has been calculated. The de Sitter metric is taken in the quasi-Euclidean Robertson-Walker form. It is shown that in the de Sitter spacetime…

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We analyze a system of two colliding ultracold atoms under strong harmonic confinement from the viewpoint of quantum defect theory and formulate a generalized self-consistent method for determining the allowed energies. We also present two…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Gillian Peach , Ian B Whittingham , Timothy J Beams

Exact solutions of Einstein equations with null Riemman-Christoffel curvature tensor everywhere, except on a hypersurface, are studied using quantum particles obeying the Klein-Gordon equation. We consider the particular cases when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paulo M. Pitelli , Patricio S. Letelier

Wavepacket propagation calculations are reported for the interaction of a Rydberg hydrogen atom ($n=2-8)$ with Cu(111) and Cu(100) surfaces (represented by a Chulkov potential), in comparison with a Jellium surface. Both copper surfaces…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-04-30 E. So , J. A. Gibbard , T. P. Softley

Quantum shape effect appears under the size-invariant shape transformations of strongly confined structures. Such a transformation distinctively influences the thermodynamic properties of confined particles. Due to their characteristic…

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Surface modes are coupled electromagnetic/electrostatic excitations of free electrons near the vacuum-plasma interface and can be excited on a sufficiently dense plasma half-space. They propagate along the surface plane and decay in either…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Lazar , P. K. Shukla , A. Smolyakov

Decoherence can be provided by a dissipative environment as described by the Caldeira-Leggett equation. This equation is foundational to the theory of quantum dissipation. However, no experimental test has been performed that measures for…

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It has been shown that the presence of a metal plate near a double quantum well with spatially separated electron and hole layers may lead to a drastic reconstruction of the system state with the formation of stable charged complexes of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 V. I. Yudson

We consider the several phenomena which are taking place in Quantum Dots (QD) and Quantum Rings (QR): The connection of the Quantum Chaos (QC) with the reflection symmetry of the QD, Disappearance of the QC in the tunnel coupled chaotic QD,…

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We have performed a comprehensive study of the singlet ground state of two electrons on the surface of a sphere of radius $R$. We have used electronic structure models ranging from restricted and unrestricted Hartree-Fock theory to…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-19 Pierre-François Loos , Peter M. W. Gill

We use the sensitive response to electric fields of Rydberg atoms to characterize all three vector components of the local electric field close to an atom-chip surface. We measured Stark-Zeeman maps of $S$ and $D$ Rydberg states using an…

An ab initio, three-dimensional quantum mechanical calculation has been performed for the time-evolution of continuum electrons in the fields of moving charges. Here the essential singularity associated with the diverging phase factor in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Teck-Ghee Lee , S. Yu. Ovchinnikov , J. Sternberg , V. Chupryna , D. R. Schultz , J. H. Macek