Dynamical Tunneling from the Edge of Vibrational State Space of Large Molecules

Classical simulation of relativistic quantum mechanics in periodic optical structures

“…The development of recent and reliable technologies in waveguide fabrication, notably the one based on waveguide inscription in transparent glasses based on femtosecond laser writing [5], has enabled to access in the lab to a wide variety of fascinating optical analogues of quantum systems. Such analogies have also transferred into optics some important ideas and methods for molding the flow of light originally developed in the context of quantum control [2,6]. Among the wide variety of quantum-optical analogies investigated in the last two decades, we mention the optical analogues of electronic Bloch oscillations [3,7] and Zener tunneling [8,9], dynamic localization [10], coherent enhancement and destruction of tunneling [11], adiabatic stabilization of atoms in ultrastrong laser fields [12], Anderson localization [13], quantum Zeno effect [14], Rabi flopping [15], coherent population transfer [16], coherent vibrational dynamics [17], geometric potentials [18], and dynamical (Kapitza) trapping [19].…”