自由空间中时空复变量自减速艾里拉盖尔高斯光束的相互作用

根据自由空间光束传输遵循的(3+1)维薛定谔方程,得到了两束时空自减速艾里复变量拉盖尔高斯(Airy elegent-Laguerre-Gaussian,AELG)光束共线传输时的解析解,并分析其共线传输时的传输特性.分析结果表明,双光束各自的模式指数、组合光束强度的权重因子、初始相位差对光束的传输都会有影响.本文发现,通过选择模式参数或者选择它们的相对振幅,对于共线传输的两束时空自减速AELG光束,可以有效控制叠加光束的波形形态以及横向传输截面的光斑分布.特别是当两束光束的模式参数不等于零时,波包将沿着传输轴发生螺旋形旋转,其相位图中心位置都会出现涡旋现象.若该参数值为正,则光束沿传输轴逆时针旋转,否则,光束将沿传输轴呈螺旋形顺时针方向旋转.通过调整叠加光束的初始相位差,波包沿传输轴线也将发生旋转,但这两种旋转特性的旋转机理完全不同.如果选取两束时空自减速AELG光束的角向模式参数m相同,则叠加光束在传输过程中呈现空心环形状态,出现空心环形时空自减速AELG波包,且该波包在传输截面上随着传输距离的增加,多环结构最终湮灭为单环,并向远方推移,使得空心部分越来越大.     

Cyclotron dynamics of electron wave packets in topological insulators in an external magnetic field

The evolution of electron wave packets formed from surface states in topological insulators located in an external magnetic field is studied. The electron and spin densities of the wave packets under consideration are calculated analytically and are visualized. The influence of the main characteristics of the wave packets (the spin polarization) on the splitting and the change in their forms with time is considered.     

Evolution of the exact spatiotemporal periodic wave and soliton solutions of the (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients

In this paper the spatiotemporal evolution of the periodic wave is investigated analytically when the laser passes through the inhomogeneous nonlinear medium. Firstly, the (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation with distributed coefficients is solved analytically by an improved homogeneous balance principle and F-expansion technique. A number of exact periodic traveling wave and spatiotemporal soliton solutions are obtained. Then, their propagation characteristics are analyzed in detail. It is found that the evolutions of propagation of spatiotemporal soliton and periodic wave solutions are regular when the diffraction and dispersion coefficients are the identical distributed coefficients, but the evolutions of propagation of these solutions are irregular with other coefficients.     

Spinless Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau Oscillator in a Galilean Non-commutative Phase Space

We examine Galilei-invariant linear wave equations in a non-commutative phase space. Specifically, we establish and solve the Galilean covariant Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation for spin-0 fields in a harmonic oscillator potential. We obtain these wave equations with a Galilean covariant approach, based on a (4+1)-dimensional manifold with light-cone coordinates followed by a reduction to a (3+1)-dimensional spacetime. We find the exact wave functions and their energy levels, and we examine the effects of non-commutativity.     

Boundary-free propagation with the time-dependent Schrodinger equation

We present two methods that allow for the efficient numerical propagation of continuum wave packets to large times. Time-dependent solutions of the Schrodinger equation that include continuum components are numerically challenging to solve because the wave packet travels, spreads, and acquires a spatial phase gradient. The methods we propose account for these kinematic effects analytically in general and numerically tractable schemes.     

Superfluid fermi gas in optical lattices: self-trapping, stable, moving solitons and breathers

We predict the existence of self-trapping, stable, moving solitons and breathers of Fermi wave packets along the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC)-BCS crossover in one dimension (1D), 2D, and 3D optical lattices. The dynamical phase diagrams for self-trapping, solitons, and breathers of the Fermi matter waves along the BEC-BCS crossover are presented analytically and verified numerically by directly solving a discrete nonlinear Schr?dinger equation. We find that the phase diagrams vary greatly along the BEC-BCS crossover; the dynamics of Fermi wave packet are different from that of Bose wave packet.     

Quantum Mechanical Analysis of the Equilateral Triangle Billiard: Periodic Orbit Theory and Wave Packet Revivals

Using the fact that the energy eigenstates of the equilateral triangle infinite well (or billiard) are available in closed form, we examine the connections between the energy eigenvalue spectrum and the classical closed paths in this geometry, using both periodic orbit theory and the short-term semi-classical behavior of wave packets. We also discuss wave packet revivals and show that there are exact revivals, for all wave packets, at times given by T_rev=9μa²/4?π where a and μ are the length of one side and the mass of the point particle, respectively. We find additional cases of exact revivals with shorter revival times for zero-momentum wave packets initially located at special symmetry points inside the billiard. Finally, we discuss simple variations on the equilateral (60°-60°-60°) triangle, such as the half equilateral (30°-60°-90°) triangle and other “foldings,” which have related energy spectra and revival structures.     

Dynamics of electron wave packets in topological insulators

Dynamics of wave packets formed by surface (edge) electronic states in topological insulators has been investigated. The spin and electron probability density, as well as zitterbewegung, of wave packets have been calculated analytically and numerically for various values of the Hamiltonian parameters. The effects of the main parameters (size and spin polarization) of the wave packets on a change in the packet shape and oscillations of their average velocity have been considered.     

The structural features of wave collapse in medium with normal group velocity dispersion

The dynamic characteristics of self-action in three-dimensional wave packets described by the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a hyperbolic space operator were studied analytically and numerically. The class of the initial wave field distributions for which self-focusing effects predominated over dispersion spreading and caused the arising of wave collapses was considered. The collapse of tubular wave packets was shown to be accompanied by packet shape changes during its contraction to the axis of the system. The nonlinear stabilization of collapses resulted in wave field fragmentation in the longitudinal direction followed by the expansion of the bunches thus formed along the axis. The dynamics of collapses was numerically studied taking into account medium nonlinearity saturation and nonlinear dissipation.     

Attosecond electron wave packet dynamics in strong laser fields

We use a train of sub-200 attosecond extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses with energies just above the ionization threshold in argon to create a train of temporally localized electron wave packets. We study the energy transfer from a strong infrared (IR) laser field to the ionized electrons as a function of the delay between the XUV and IR fields. When the wave packets are born at the zero crossings of the IR field, a significant amount of energy (approximately 20 eV) is transferred from the field to the electrons. This results in dramatically enhanced above-threshold ionization in conditions where the IR field alone does not induce any significant ionization. Because both the energy and duration of the wave packets can be varied independently of the IR laser, they are valuable tools for studying and controlling strong-field processes.     

Maxwell equation for coupled spin-charge wave propagation

We show that the dissipationless spin current in the ground state of the Rashba model gives rise to a reactive coupling between the spin and charge propagation, which is formally identical to the coupling between the electric and the magnetic fields in the (2 + 1)-dimensional Maxwell equation. This analogy leads to a remarkable effect of fractionalization of spin packets (FSP) where a density packet can spontaneously split into two counterpropagation packets, each carrying the opposite spin. In a certain parameter regime, the coupled spin and charge wave propagates like a transverse "photon." We propose both optical and purely electronic experiments to detect the FSP effect.     

An Approach to Construct Wave Packets with Complete Classical-Quantum Correspondence in Non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics

We introduce a method to construct wave packets with complete classical and quantum correspondence in one-dimensional non-relativistic quantum mechanics. First, we consider two similar oscillators with equal total energy. In classical domain, we can easily solve this model and obtain the trajectories in the space of variables. This picture in the quantum level is equivalent with a hyperbolic partial differential equation which gives us a freedom for choosing the initial wave function and its initial slope. By taking advantage of this freedom, we propose a method to choose an appropriate initial condition which is independent from the form of the oscillators. We then construct the wave packets for some cases and show that these wave packets closely follow the whole classical trajectories and peak on them. Moreover, we use de-Broglie Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics to quantify this correspondence and show that the resulting Bohmian trajectories are also in complete agreement with their classical counterparts.     

Method of Coupled Waves in the Theory of Excitation of Waveguides by High-Frequency Currents with Slowly Varying Amplitudes

Based on the method of coupled waves, we propose nonstationary equations describing excitation of waveguides in which the energy distribution in wave packets varies due to mutual transformation of the coupled waves. We obtain a universal expression relating the dispersion of a waveguide mode to the frequency dependence of its field, i.e., to a change in the field structure of the mode during a pulse. To illustrate the proposed procedure of constructing nonstationary equations, we apply it to the well-known case of excitation of plane-wave packets by electric currents in a homogeneous isotropic medium with time dispersion.__________Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 198–06, March 2005.     

Zitterbewegung of electronic wave packets in III-V zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells

We study the zitterbewegung of electronic wave packets in III-V zinc-blende semiconductor quantum wells due to spin-orbit coupling. Our results suggest a direct experimental proof of this fundamental effect, confirming a long-standing theoretical prediction. For electron motion in a harmonic quantum wire, we numerically and analytically find a resonance condition maximizing the zitterbewegung.     

Coherent matter waves for ultrafast laser pulse characterization

A technique for the characterization of ultrashort laser pulses using coherent matter waves is demonstrated. We emphasize the analogy between matter wave packets and electromagnetic wave packets propagating in dispersive media. Due to quadratic dispersion the wave packets are stretched and their temporal structure eventually converges to their spectrum, thus providing a possibility for energy measurements in conjugate space. This is demonstrated theoretically and experimentally and is the basis for our laser pulse characterization technique. We use energy resolved interferometrically recorded photoelectron spectra generated by above-threshold ionization in an autocorrelation setup to characterize ultrashort laser pulses at 800 nm wavelength. This approach is potentially applicable to the XUV wavelength region.     

Absence of wave packet diffusion in disordered nonlinear systems

We study the spreading of an initially localized wave packet in two nonlinear chains (discrete nonlinear Schr?dinger and quartic Klein-Gordon) with disorder. Previous studies suggest that there are many initial conditions such that the second moment of the norm and energy density distributions diverges with time. We find that the participation number of a wave packet does not diverge simultaneously. We prove this result analytically for norm-conserving models and strong enough nonlinearity. After long times we find a distribution of nondecaying yet interacting normal modes. The Fourier spectrum shows quasiperiodic dynamics. Assuming this result holds for any initially localized wave packet, we rule out the possibility of slow energy diffusion. The dynamical state could approach a quasiperiodic solution (Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser torus) in the long time limit.     

Representation of the anisotropic pseudo-potential for nematogens

A semiclassical molecular dynamics method based on the approximate variational solution of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation with gaussian wave packets [1–3] has been applied to the simulation of liquid, solid and gaseous neon. The technique is computationally stable: the wave packets do not spread and the conservation of energy is excellent. With a suitable choice of the pair potential fairly satisfactory agreement with the experimental energy and pressure is obtained. The radial distribution functions exaggerate the quantum-mechanical broadening effect. Diffusion constants are in fair agreement with experiment and lower than those of the classical Lennard-Jones liquid.     

Wave packet splitting and zitterbewegung in two-dimensional semiconductor structures with spin-orbit coupling

Dynamics of electron wave packets in an asymmetric quantum well in the presence of Rashba spinorbit coupling was analytically and numerically studied. Electron Green’s functions were introduced and the evolution of 1D and 2D wave packets was studied. The effect of packet splitting caused by the presence of two branches with different chiralities in the Rashba Hamiltonian spectrum and zitterbewegung, i.e., packet center’s jitter, was studied. Spatial components of the spin density were calculated. It was shown that the component of the spin density S _y in split parts of the wave packet has opposite signs, and two other spin density components oscillate in space between scattering packets.