Physics Publications



  • D. Sokolovski and A. Matzkin, Wave packets, "negative times" and the elephant in the room
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  •  L. Ballesteros Ferraz, A. Matzkin and A. K. Pan, Temperature-induced measurement sensitivity enhancement via imaginary weak values
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  • X. Gutiérrez de la Cal, M. Alkhateeb, M. Pons, A. Matzkin, D. Sokolovski, Quantum statistical effects in one-particle densities: scattering and pair production
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  • M. Alkhateeb, X. Gutierrez de la Cal, M. Pons, D. Sokolovski, A. Matzkin, Relativistic quantum field theory approach to electron wave-packet tunneling: A fully causal process, Phys. Rev. A 111, 012222, 2025.
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  • J. Allam and A. Matzkin, Are Unitary Accounts of Quantum Measurements in Relativistic Wigner’s Friend Setups Compatible in Different Reference Frames? Metrology  4, 364, 2024.
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  • M. Alkhateeb and A. Matzkin, Evolution of strictly localized states in non-interacting quantum field theories with background fields, Physical Review A 109  062223, 2024.
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  • F. Daem and A. Matzkin, Dynamics, locality and weak measurements: trajectories and which-way information in the case of a simplified double-slit setup,  Quantum Stud.: Math. Found. 11, 567, 2024.
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  • S. N.  Sahoo, S. Chakraborti, S. Kanjilal, S. R. Behera, D. Home, A. Matzkin, and U. Sinha, Unambiguous joint detection of spatially separated properties of a single photon in the two arms of an interferometer,  Commun Phys 6, 203, 2023.
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  • X. Gutierrez de la Cal and A. Matzkin, Beyond the light-cone propagation of relativistic wavefunctions: numerical results, Dynamics 3, 60, 2023.
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  • J. Allam and A. Matzkin, Effect of a moving mirror on the free fall of a quantum particle in a homogeneous gravitational field, Quantum Rep. 5, 1, 2023.
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  • M. Alkhateeb and A. Matzkin, Relativistic spin-0 particle in a box: Bound states, wave packets, and the disappearance of the Klein paradox, Am. J. Phys.90, 297, 2022.
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  • T. Durt, D. Fargue, A. Matzkin and J. Robert, Theory of the Double Solution and Quantum Trajectories, Journées Louis de Broglie 2019, Ann. Fond. L. de Broglie 46, 1, 2021.
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  • M. Alkhateeb, X. Gutierrez de la Cal, M. Pons, D. Sokolovski and A. Matzkin, Relativistic time-dependent quantum dynamics across supercritical barriers for Klein-Gordon and Dirac particles, Phys. Rev. A 103, 042203, 2021.
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  • D. Sokolovski and A. Matzkin, Wigner’s Friend Scenarios and the Internal Consistency of Standard Quantum Mechanics, Entropy 23, 1186, 2021.
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  • M. Waegell and A. Matzkin, Nonlocal Interferences Induced by the Phase of the Wavefunction for a Particle in a Cavity with Moving Boundaries, Quantum Rep. 2, 514, 2020.
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  • X. Gutiérrez de la Cal, M. Alkhateeb, M. Pons, A. Matzkin and D. Sokolovski,  Klein paradox for bosons, wave packets and negative tunnelling times, Sci. Rep. 10, 19225, 2020.
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  • A. Matzkin, S. V. Mousavi, and M. Waegell, Nonlocality and local causality in the Schrödinger Equation with time-dependent boundary conditions, Phys. Lett. A 382, 3347, 2018.
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  • Q. Duprey, S. Kanjilal, U. Sinha, D. Home and A. Matzkin, The Quantum Cheshire Cat effect: Theoretical basis and observational implications, Ann. Phys. 391 1 2018.
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  • A. Matzkin, The theory of the Double Solution: Dynamical issues in quantum systems in the semiclassical regime, Ann. Fond. L. de Broglie 42, 213, 2017.
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  • S. Sponar, T. Denkmayr, H. Geppert, H. Lemmel, A. Matzkin, J. Tollaksen and Y. Hasegawa, Weak values obtained in matter-wave interferometry. Phys. Rev. A 92, 062121, 2015.
  •  Journal Abstract  PDF A slightly different earlier version of this paper was posted here: Abstract/PDF (Preprint) 
  • A. Matzkin, Weak measurements of trajectories in quantum systems: classical, Bohmian and sum over paths J. Phys. A 48 305301, 2015.
  •  Journal Abstract  PDF Abstract/PDF (Preprint)  Selected as the Cover Featured Article of Issue No 30 of J. Phys. A Vol. 48.
  • M. Lombardi and A. Matzkin, Reply to “Comment on ‘Entanglement and chaos in the kicked top' ”, Phys. Rev. E 92, 036902 2015.
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  • Tobias Denkmayr, Hermann Geppert, Stephan Sponar, Hartmut Lemmel, Alexandre Matzkin, Jeff Tollaksen and Yuji Hasegawa, Observation of a quantum Cheshire Cat in a matter-wave interferometer experiment, Nature Communications 5, 4492, 2014.
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  • D. Home, A. S. Majumdar and A. Matzkin, Effects of a transient barrier on wavepacket traversal, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 45 295301, 2012. 
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  • A. K. Pan and A. Matzkin, Weak measurements as an instance of non-ideal measurements, Las. Phys. 22, 1553, 2012. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Entanglement in the classical limit: Quantum correlations from classical probabilities, Phys. Rev. A 84, 022111, 2011.
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  • M. Lombardi and A. Matzkin, Entanglement and chaos in the kicked top, Phys. Rev. E 83, 016207, 2011.
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  •  A. Matzkin, The Bohmian Model, Semiclassical Systems and the Emergence of Classical Trajectories in "Quantum Trajectories" (K. Hughes and G. Parlant Eds, CCP6, Daresbury, 2011), p. 63. Proceedings of the Quantum Trajectories Workshop 2010.
  • M. Lombardi and A. Matzkin, Dynamical entanglement as a signature of chaos in the semiclassical limit, Las. Phys. 20, 1215, 2010
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  • A. Matzkin, Bohmian mechanics and the emergence of classicality, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 174, 012039, 2009.
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  • A. Matzkin,  Reply to “Comment on `Relevance of Bell's theorem as a signature of nonlocality: Case of classical angular momentum distributions' ”, Phys. Rev. A 79, 046102, 2009. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Bohmian mechanics, the quantum-classical correspondence and the classical limit: the case of the square billiard, Found. Phys. 39, 903, 2009. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Is Bell's Theorem Relevant to Quantum Mechanics? On Locality and Non-Commuting Observables, AIP Conf Proc 1101, 339, 2009. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Relevance of Bell's theorem as a signature of nonlocality: Case of classical angular momentum distributions, Phys. Rev. A 77 062110, 2008. 
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  • A. Matzkin and V. Nurock, Classical and Bohmian trajectories in semiclassical systems: Mismatch in dynamics, mismatch in reality?, Studies in Hist. and Philosophy of Science B, 39, 17-40, 2008.  
  • Journal Abstract/PDFPDF A slightly different version of this paper was posted with the title Are Bohmian trajectories real? On the dynamical mismatch between de Broglie-Bohm and classical dynamics in semiclassical systems, arXiv:quant-ph/0609172, 2006.  Abstract/PDF (Preprint)
  • A. Matzkin, Non-Hermitian quantum mechanics: the case of bound-state scattering theory, Journal of Physics A: Math. Gen. 39 10859, 2006. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Time evolution and non-Hermiticity in quantum defect theory, Journal of Physics B 39, 3687, 2006. 
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  • M. Lombardi and A. Matzkin, Scattering induced dynamical entanglement and the quantum-classical correspondence, Europhysics Lett. 74, 771, 2006.
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  • A. Matzkin and M. Lombardi, Quantum and semiclassical phase functions for the quantization of symmetric oscillators, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38, 6211, 2005.
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  • A. Matzkin, Rydberg wavepackets in terms of hidden-variables: de Broglie–Bohm trajectories, Phys. Lett. A 345, 31, 2005.
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  • A. Matzkin, Exact quantization of nonsolvable potentials: the role of the quantum phase, Phys. Rev. A 72, 054102, 2005. 
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  • M. Raoult, S. Guizard, D. Gauyacq and A. Matzkin, Quadratic Zeeman effect in Rydberg states of NO, J. Phys. B 38, S171, 2005. 
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  • A. Matzkin and T. S. Monteiro, Diffraction and spectral statistics in systems with a multilevel scatterer, Phys. Rev. E 70, 046215, 2004.  
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  • A. Matzkin and T. S. Monteiro, Spectral rigidity in scatterer-perturbed systems:  the case of nonhydrogenic atoms in fields, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37, L225, 2004.  
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  • A. Matzkin. Comment on "Nonclassical Paths in the Recurrence Spectrum of Diamagnetic Atoms", Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 269301, 2003. 
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  • A. Matzkin, M. Raoult and D. Gauyacq, Observation of diffractive orbits in the spectrum of excited NO in a magnetic field. Phys. Rev. A 68, 061401(R), 2003.
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  • A. Matzkin, P. A. Dando and T. S. Monteiro, Contribution of forbidden orbits in the photoabsorption spectra of atoms and molecules in a magnetic field, Phys. Rev. A 67, 2003. 
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  • A. Matzkin and M. Lombardi, Numerical construction of "optimal" nonoscillating amplitude and phase functions, Phys. Rev. E 66, 037702, 2002.
  • A. Matzkin, P. A. Dando and T. S. Monteiro, Closed-orbit theory for molecules in fields, Phys. Rev. A 66, 013410, 2002. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Realism and the wavefunction, Eur. J. Phys. 23, 285, 2002.
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  • D. Crampton, D. Schade, F. Hammer, A. Matzkin, S.J. Lilly and O. Le Fevre, The gravitational lens CFRS 03.1077, Astrophysical Journal 570, 86, 2002.
  • A. Matzkin, Non-oscillating solutions to uncoupled Ermakov systems and the semi-classical limit, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 34, 7833, 2001. 
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  • A. Matzkin and T.S. Monteiro, Rydberg molecules in external fields: A semiclassical analysis, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 143002, 2001. 
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  • S.C. Ross, Ch. Jungen and A. Matzkin, Multichannel quantum defect theory treatment of triplet gerade and ungerade d-symmetry levels of H2 and its isotopomers, Canadian Journal of Physics 79, 561, 2001.
  • A. Matzkin, Smooth amplitude-phase formulation of the Schrodinger equation based on the Ermakov invariant, Physical Review A 63, 012103, 2000.
  • A. Matzkin, Ch. Jungen and S.C. Ross, Multichannel-quantum-defect-theory treatment of preionized and predissociated triplet gerade levels of H2, Phys. Rev. A 62, 062511, 2000. 
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  • A. Matzkin, Standing-wave rearrangement scattering formalism for multi-arrangement quantum defect theory, Phys. Rev. A 59, 2043, 1999. 
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  •  A. Matzkin, Ch. Jungen and S. C. Ross, Extended Coulomb approximation for MQDT computations of dipole moments: Method of calculation and application to H2 , Physical Review A 58, 4462 (1998).