Erasmo Recami - Some Recent Scientific Papers

Erasmo Recami

Some Recent Scientific Papers

Chronon (Quantum of Time), and Decoherence

Ruy H.A.Farias & E.Recami: “Introduction of a Quantum of Time (‘chronon’), and its Consequences for Quantum Mechanics”, Report IC/98/74 (ICTP; Trieste, July 1998), pp.1-74: e-print quant-ph/9706059.

E. Recami: “A simple quantum equation for dissipation and decoherence” [report NSF-ITF-02-62 (I.T.P., UCSB; California, 2002)], in Quantum Computing and Quantum Bits in Mesoscopic Systems, ed. by
A.J.Leggett, B.Ruggiero and P.Silvestrini (Kluwer/Plenum; New York, 2004), pp.111-122.

E. Recami & G. Salesi: "Deriving Spin within a discrete-time theory", Foundations of Physics 37 (2007) 277-294.

Extended Relativity

E. Recami: Special Relativity Extended to (antimatter and) Superluminal Methods: A Review. [Big file: please, wait a little while downloading]

E.Recami: “Superluminal motions? A bird's-eye view of the experimental status-of-the-art”, Found. Phys. 31 (2001) 1119-1135; and references therein.

E.Recami, M.Z.Rached, K.Z.Nobrega, C.A.Dartora & H.E.Hernandez F.: “On the localized superluminal solutions to the Maxwell equations”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 9(1)(2003) 59-73 [special issue on `Nontraditional Forms of Light’]; and references therein.
A version of 750Kb only is avaliable as the e-print arXiv: 0709.2191[physics]

E.Recami: “Piu` veloci della luce? Una panoramica sui risultati sperimentali”,
Il Nuovo Saggiatore 17(1-2) (2001) 21-29; and references therein
[see also E.Recami & M.Fracastoro Decker: “I Tachioni”, Il Nuovo Saggiatore 2(3) (1986) 20-29].

E.Recami: “On localized ‘X-shaped’ Superluminal solutions to Maxwell equations”,Physica A 252 (1998) 586-610.

E.Recami, F.Fontana & R.Garavaglia: “Superluminal motions and Special Relativity: A discussion of recent experiments”,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 15 (2000) 2793-2812; and references therein.

E. Recami, M.Z.Rached & C.A.Dartora: "Localized X-shaped field generated by a superluminal eletric charge", Phys. Rev. E 69 (2004) no.027602 [4 pages]

M.Z.Rached, E.Recami & H.E.Harnandez F.: “New localized Superluminal solutions to the wave equations with finite total energies and arbitrary frequencies”,
European Physical Journal D 21 (2002) 217-228.

E.Recami & M.Z.Rached: "Mais velozes que a luz ?", Ciencia Hoje 29 (2001), issue no. 170, pp20-25

E. Recami: An updated overview of the "Superluminal" experiments (Superluminal objects and waves: A homage to E. C. G. Sudarshan) , e-print arXiv: 0804.1502 [physics; 09 Apr. 2008]

M. Z. Rached & E. Recami: Subluminal wave bullets: Exact localized subluminal solutions to the wave equations. , .Physical Review A77 (2008) 033824 [14 pages]

M. Z. Rached & E. Recami: Cherenkov radiation has nothing to do with X-shaped localized waves (Comments on "Cherenkov-Vavilov formulation of X-waves") , e-print arXiv:0807.4301 v2 [Physics; 19 Aug. 2008]

Localized Waves (including Superluminal X-shaped pulses)

M.Z.Rached, H.E.Hernandez F., & Erasmo Recami: “Chirped optical X-shaped pulses in material media”,
Journal of the Optical Society of America - A 21 (2004)
2455-2463 [listed in one of its “Focus” by AIP/APS].

M.Z.Rached, A.Shaarawi & E.Recami: “Focused X-shaped pulses”,
Journal of the Optical Society of America - A 21 (2004)
1564-1574 [listed in one of its “Focus” by AIP/APS].

M.Z.Rached, E.Recami and H.E.Hernandez F.: “Theory of 'Frozen Waves': modeling the shape of stationary wave fields,” ; Journal of the Optical Society of America - A22 (2005) 2465-75

M.Z.Rached: "Frozen Waves": in lossy materials,
Optics Express 14 (2006) 1804-1809

M.Z.Rached, E.Recami & F.Fontana : “Superluminal localized solutions to Maxwell equations along a waveguide”, Physical Review E 64 (2001) 066603 [6 pages].

M.Z.Rached, K.Z.Nobrega, E.Recami & H.E.Hernandez F.: “Superluminal X-shaped beams propagating without distortion along a co-axial guide”,
Physical Review E 66 (2002) 046617 [10 pages].

M.Z.Rached, F.Fontana & E.Recami: “Superluminal localized solutions to Maxwell equations along a waveguide: The finite-energy case”, Physical Review E 67 (2003) 036620 [7 pages].

E.Recami: “Piu` veloci della luce? Una panoramica sui risultati sperimentali”,
Il Nuovo Saggiatore 17(1-2) (2001) 21-29
[see also E.Recami & M.Fracastoro Decker: “I Tachioni”, Il Nuovo Saggiatore 2(3) (1986) 20-29].

C.A.Dartora, K.Z.Nobrega, H.E.Hernandez F., & E.Recami: “Properties of localized pulses through the analysis of temporal modulations effects in Bessel beams, and the convolution theorem”, Optics Communications 29 (2004) 99-107.

C.A.Dartora, M.Z.Rached & E.Recami: “General formulation for the analysis of scalar diffraction-free beams using angular modulation: Mathieu and Bessel beams”,
Optics Communications 222 (2003) 75-85.

M.Z.Rached, K.Z.Nobrega, H.E.Hernandez F., & E.Recami, “Localized Superluminal solutions to the wave equation in (vacuum or) dispersive media, for arbitrary frequencies and with adjustable bandwidth”, Optics Communications 226 (2003) 15-23.

E.Recami: “On localized ‘X-shaped’ Superluminal solutions to Maxwell equations”, Physica A 252 (1998) 586-610.
See also arXiv: physics/9712051v2.

E. Recami, M.Z.Rached & C.A.Dartora: "Localized X-shaped field generated by a superluminal eletric charge", Phys. Rev. E 69 (2004) no.027602 [4 pages]

E.Recami & M.Z.Rached: "Mais velozes que a luz ?", Ciencia Hoje 29 (2001), issue no. 170, pp20-25

M. Zamboni-Rached, E. Recami, H.E. Hernandez-Figueroa, et al. : (PATENT) "Method and Apparatus for producing Stationary (Intense) Wavefields of Arbitrary Shape", initially filed c/o the European Patent Office with the number 05743096.3-1240-EP2005052352 [the sponsor being "Bracco Imaging, SpA"]

E.Recami, F.Fontana & R.Garavaglia: “Superluminal motions and Special Relativity: A discussion of recent experiments”,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 15 (2000) 2793-2812.

E. Recami: An updated overview of the "Superluminal" experiments (Superluminal objects and waves: A homage to E. C. G. Sudarshan), e-print arXiv:0804.1502 [Physics; 19 Aug. 2008]

M. Z. Rached & E. Recami: Subluminal wave bullets: Exact localized subluminal solutions to the wave equations, Physical Review A77 (2008) 033824 [14 pages]

M. Z. Rached & E. Recami: Cherenkov radiation has nothing to do with X-shaped localized waves (Comments on "Cherenkov-Vavilov formulation of X-waves"), e-print arXiv:0807.4301 v2 [Physics: 19 Aug. 2008]

E. Recami, M. Z. Rached & H. E. H. Figueroa: Localized Waves: A Scientific and Historical Introduction, preliminary version of chapter 1 [pp.1-14] in J. Wiley´s book Localized Waves (see below).

M. Z. Rached, E. Recami & H. E. H. Figueroa: Structure of the Nondiffracting (Localized) Waves and some interesting applications, premilinary version of chapter 2 [pp.43-77] in J. Wiley´s book Localized Waves (see below)

H. E. H. Figueroa, M. Z. Rached & E. Recami (editors), Localized Waves, book (J. Wiley; Hobokeu, N.J., 2008).
See the contents of the volume (369 pages)

Micro Universes Hadrons And Multi-Verses

E.Recami: “Multi-verses, micro-universes and elementary particles (hadrons)”, report NSF-ITF-02-94 (I.T.P., UCSB; California, 2002)], e-print physics/0505149
[cf. also E.Recami & V.T.Zanchin: “Particelle elementari quali micro-universi”, Il Nuovo Saggiatore 8(2) (1992) 13-23].

Review Articles, and other topics

E.Recami: “Superluminal motions? A bird's-eye view of the experimental status-of-the-art”, Found. Phys. 31 (2001) 1119-1135.

E.Recami & M.Z.Rached: “Mais velozes que a luz?”,
Ciencia Hoje 29 (2001; Rio de Janeiro), pp.20-25, issue no.170.

E.Recami: “A simple quantum equation for dissipation and decoherence” [report NSF-ITF-02-62 (I.T.P., UCSB; California, 2002)], in Quantum Computing and Quantum Bits in Mesoscopic Systems, ed. by
A.J.Leggett, B.Ruggiero and P.Silvestrini (Kluwer/Plenum; New York, 2004), pp.111-122.

E.Recami, M.Z.Rached, K.Z.Nobrega, C.A.Dartora & H.E.Hernandez F.: “On the localized superluminal solutions to the Maxwell equations”, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 9(1)(2003) 59-73 [special issue on `Nontraditional Forms of Light’].
avaliable as e-print arXiv 0709.2191 [physics]

M.Z.Rached, E.Recami & H.E.Harnandez F.: “New localized Superluminal solutions to the wave equations with finite total energies and arbitrary frequencies”, European Physical Journal D 21 (2002) 217-228.

E.Recami: “Multi-verses, micro-universes and elementary particles (hadrons)”, report NSF-ITF-02-94 (I.T.P., UCSB; California, 2002)], e-print physics/0505149 [cf. also E.Recami & V.T.Zanchin: “Particelle elementari quali micro-universi”, Il Nuovo Saggiatore 8(2) (1992) 13-23].

E.Recami: “On localized ‘X-shaped’ Superluminal solutions to Maxwell equations”, Physica A 252 (1998) 586-610.

V.S.Olkhovsky, E.Recami & J.Jakiel: “Unified time analysis of photon and particle tunnelling”,
Physics Reports 398 (2004) 133-178.

E.Recami & G.Salesi: “Hydrodynamics and kinematics of spinning particles”, Physical Review A 57 (1998) 98-105.

V.Berzi & E.Recami: “Model for proton-antiproton Annihilation in Flight with Multipion Production”, Physical Review 160 (1967) 1263-1271.

E.Recami, F.Fontana & R.Garavaglia: “Superluminal motions and Special Relativity: A discussion of recent experiments”,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 15 (2000) 2793-2812.

E.Recami: Il Caso Majorana: Epistolario, Documenti, Testimonianze, 5th enlarged & revised edition: pp.1-273 (Di Renzo pub.; Rome, 2008; www.direnzo.it). See also the 2nd edition (Series “Oscar”, Mondadori pub.; Milan, 1991). All material and photos protected by copyright].

E.Recami: “Ettore Majorana a sessant'anni dalla sua scomparsa: L'opera scientifica edita e inedita”, appeared in
Quaderni di Storia della Fisica, issue no.5 (1999), pp.19-68
[containing a small part of the material to be found in the book E.Recami: Il Caso Majorana: Epistolario, Documenti, Testimonianze, 4th enlarged & revised edition: pp.1-273 (Di Renzo pub.; Rome, 2002); material and photos protected by copyright].

E. Recami & G. Ziino: About new space-time symmetrics in Relativity and Quantum Mechanics, Nuovo Cimento A32 (1976) 205-215.

E. Recami, M. Z. Rached & H. E. H. Figueroa: Localized Waves: A Scientific and Historical Introduction, preliminary version of chapter 1 [pp.1-14] in J. Wiley´s book Localized Waves (see above).

Structure of Spinning Particles

G.Salesi & E.Recami: “Hydrodynamical reformulation and quantum limit of the Barut--Zanghi theory”, Found. Phys. Lett. 10 (1997) 533-546.

G.Salesi & E.Recami: “Spin effects on the cyclotron frequency for a Dirac electron”, Phys. Lett. A 267 (2000) 219-224.

E.Recami & G.Salesi: “Hydrodynamics and kinematics of spinning particles”, Physical Review A 57 (1998) 98-105.

E.Recami & G.Salesi: “Velocity field and operator in (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics”, Found. of Phys. 28 (1998) 763-776.

E. Recami & G. Salesi: "Deriving Spin within a discrete-time theory", Foundations of Physics 37 (2007) 277-294.

G. Salesi: "Non-Newtonian Mechanics",International Journal of Modern Physics A", Vol. 17, No. 3 (2002) 347-374

Tunneling Times And Time Operator

V. S. Olkhovsky & E. Recami: Time as a quantum observable. International Journal of Modern Physics. A22 (2007) 5063-5087.
See also arXiv:quant-ph/0605069.

V.S.Olkhovsky, E.Recami & J.Jakiel: “Unified time analysis of photon and particle tunnelling”,
Physics Reports 398 (2004) 133-178.

A.P.L.Barbero, H.E.Hernandez F., & E.Recami: “On the propagation speed of evanescent modes”,
Phys. Rev. E 62 (2000) 8628-8635.

V.S.Olkhovsky, E.Recami & G.Salesi: “Tunneling through two successive barriers and the Hartman (Superluminal) effect” [e-print quant-ph/0002022; this paper was confirmed and extended in the next article], Europhysics Letters 57 (2002) 879-884.

Y.Ahoronov, N.Erez & B.Reznik: “Superoscillations and tunneling times”, Physical Review A 65 (2002) 052124.

E.Recami: “Superluminal tunneling through successive barriers. Does QM predict infinite group-velocities?”,
Journal of Modern Optics 51 (2004) 913-923.

J.Jakiel, V.S.Olkhovsky & E.Recami: “On Superluminal motions in photon and particle tunnellings”, Physics Letters A 248 (1998) 156-160.

S.Longhi, P.Laporta, M.Belmonte & E.Recami: “Measurement of Superluminal optical tunneling times in double-barrier photonic bandgaps”,
Phys. Rev. E 65 (2002) 046610 [6 pages].

V.S.Olkhovsky, E.Recami & A.K.Zaichenko: “Resonant and non-resonant tunneling through a double barrier”,
Europhysics Letters 70 (2005) 712-718.

E.Recami, F.Fontana & R.Garavaglia: “Superluminal motions and Special Relativity: A discussion of recent experiments”,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 15 (2000) 2793-2812.

G.Privitera, E.Recami, G.Salesi & V.S.Olkhovsky: “Tunnelling Times: An Elementary Introduction”,
Rivista Nuovo Cim. 26 (2003), monographic issue no.4 [54 pages].

V.S.Olkhovsky & E.Recami; "New developments on the study of Time as a quantum observable", arXiv's e-print quant-ph/0605119 (2006), appeared in such a [reduced] version in International Journal of Modern Physics B22 (2008) 1877-1897.

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