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Yoshiaki Teranishi

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Analysis of switching operation in quantum conveyance

In this paper, we study the quantum dynamics of a particle conveyed by a moving potential well, with a focus on its survival probability. In physical systems, this process is inevitably subjected to external disturbances, such as environmental coupling, which reduce survival probability. Even when external noise is suppressed, however, intrinsic disturbances remain, leading to unwanted leakage from the trapping potential. Specifically, dynamic parameter variations induce nonadiabatic transitions. Various types of nonadiabatic transitions arise from the time-dependence of the potential parameters. When the potential well is smoothly accelerated, the trapped particle may escape due to inertia, a phenomenon known as adiabatic tunneling. Beyond this, the switching procedures (starting and stopping the motion) exert a significant impact that depends heavily on the abruptness of the operation. Consequently, precise dynamical control of the system Hamiltonian is essential, yet it remains a highly nontrivial task. We analytically investigate the mechanism underlying these switching effects and derive a closed-form formula to quantify them. By combining this switching contribution with the adiabatic tunneling rate, we accurately approximate the total nonadiabatic effect. Our framework reproduces survival probabilities across various acceleration protocols with high precision. Since the switching effect is derived analytically and the adiabatic tunneling rate is determined by constant-acceleration analysis, the model is independent of specific, complex protocols. Once the fundamental parameters determined from a few numerical simulations of typical cases are established, the survival probabilities for arbitrary acceleration protocols can be predicted. This provides a practical framework for real-time quantum control without the need for full dynamical simulations.

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Optimization of conveyance of quantum particles by moving potential well

Quantum mechanical control of the position of a particle by using a trapping potential well is an important problem for the manipulation of a quantum particle. We study the probability of successful conveyance of a particle trapping in a potential well, i.e., survival probability in the process carrying of the particle for a given length within a given fixed time. For the actual motion of conveyance, we need to accelerate the particle to move and then decelerate it to stop at the destination. First, the relaxation of the survival probability in a constant acceleration rate is studied in detail by direct numerical calculation, the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin method, and a method of the resonance states. The survival probability was found to show an exponential decay in a long time, which is analyzed from a viewpoint of eigenvalue problem. An important source of dropoff comes from a non-analytic change of velocity at the starting point. When the rested particle begins to move, the ground state of the rest frame is redistributed to eigenstates of the moving frame, and then each eigenstate of the moving frame evolves in time. The dephasing of wave functions of the distributed populations reduces the probability of successful conveyance. In general, a smooth start gives a small initial disturbance but requires a large acceleration during the process to reach the destination in the fixed time which causes a larger dropoff in the process. Considering these conflicting facts, we study the survival probability in concrete conveyance schemes. We observe the time evolution of the trapped probability and the population distribution during the conveyance process. In cases that the potential well has several bound states, we propose a method to select the particle trapped at the ground state by making use of the difference of survival probabilities of bound states.

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Structural Order and Melting of a Quasi-One-Dimensional Electron System

We investigate the influence of confinement on the positional order of a quasi-1D electron system trapped on the surface of liquid helium. We find evidence that the melting of the Wigner solid (WS) depends on the confinement strength, as well as electron density and temperature. A reentrant solid-liquid-solid transition is observed for increasing electron density under constant electrostatic confinement. As the electron row number $N_y$ changes, varying commensurability results in a modulation of the WS order, even when $N_y$ is large (several tens). This is confirmed by Monte Carlo simulations.

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Semiclassical approaches to controlling chemical reaction dynamics

We propose to use semiclassical methods to treat laser control problems of chemical reaction dynamics. Our basic strategy is as follows: Laser-driven chemical reactions are considered to consist of two processes. One is the wavepacket propagation on an adiabatic potential energy surface (PES), and the other is the electronic transition between PES's. Because the latter process is mathematically equivalent to nonadiabatic transitions between Floquet (dressed) states, we can control such a process using the semiclassical Zhu-Nakamura theory for nonadiabatic transitions. For the former process, we incorporate semiclassical propagation methods such as the Herman-Kluk propagator into optimization procedures like optimal control theory. We show some numerical examples for our strategies. We also develop a semiclassical direct algorithm to treat the adiabatic propagation and nonadiabatic transitions as a whole.

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Control of photodissociation branching using the complete reflection phenomenon: Application to HI molecule

The laser control of photodissociation branching in a diatomic molecule is demonstrated to be effectively achieved with use of the complete reflection phenomenon. The phenomenon and the control condition can be nicely formulated by the semiclassical (Zhu-Nakamura) theory. The method is applied to the branching between I($^2 P_{3/2}$) (HI $\to$ H + I) and I$^*(^2 P_{1/2})$ (HI $\to$ H + I$^*$) formation, and nearly complete control is shown to be possible by appropriately choosing an initial vibrational state and laser frequency in spite of the fact that there are three electronically excited states involved. Numerical calculations of the corresponding wavepacket dynamics confirm the results.

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