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Auteurs principaux: Sankaran, Akilan, Chavez, Diego Israel
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Publié: 2025
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author Sankaran, Akilan
Chavez, Diego Israel
author_facet Sankaran, Akilan
Chavez, Diego Israel
contents We investigate the ability of millimetric walking droplets to tunnel between spatially-structured cavities. By synthesizing experimental and theoretical analysis, we provide a comprehensive framework for droplet tunneling mechanics in three spatial dimensions. We define a generalized Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator that enables explicit characterization of droplet and wave-field dynamics under highly intricate variable-topography systems. This formalism enables a reduced, three-dimensional description of the pilot-wave field, facilitating high-fidelity numerical simulations of tunneling probabilities and long-time macroscopic dynamics with significantly improved accuracy over existing quasi-two-dimensional models. Moreover, we demonstrate experimental droplet tunneling in complex cavity geometries and discuss many-droplet coupling in the context of tunneling observations.
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spellingShingle From Walking to Tunneling: An Investigation of Generalized Pilot-Wave Dynamics
Sankaran, Akilan
Chavez, Diego Israel
Mathematical Physics
We investigate the ability of millimetric walking droplets to tunnel between spatially-structured cavities. By synthesizing experimental and theoretical analysis, we provide a comprehensive framework for droplet tunneling mechanics in three spatial dimensions. We define a generalized Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator that enables explicit characterization of droplet and wave-field dynamics under highly intricate variable-topography systems. This formalism enables a reduced, three-dimensional description of the pilot-wave field, facilitating high-fidelity numerical simulations of tunneling probabilities and long-time macroscopic dynamics with significantly improved accuracy over existing quasi-two-dimensional models. Moreover, we demonstrate experimental droplet tunneling in complex cavity geometries and discuss many-droplet coupling in the context of tunneling observations.
title From Walking to Tunneling: An Investigation of Generalized Pilot-Wave Dynamics
topic Mathematical Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20110