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Using the transfer matrix technique, we investigate the propagation of electron through a two dimensional disordered sample. We find that the spatial distribution of electrons is homogeneous only in the limit of weak disorder (diffusive…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-09-28 P. Markos

It is shown that general solutions of the free-particle Schroedinger equation can be mapped onto solutions of the Schroedinger equation for the harmonic oscillator. This is done in such a way that the time evolution of a free particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-25 Ole Steuernagel

The exact analytical solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation for the generalized symmetrical Woods-Saxon potential are examined for the scattering, bound and quasi-bound states in one dimension. The reflection and transmission coefficients…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 B. C. Lütfüoğlu , F. Akdeniz , O. Bayrak

The problem of one-dimensional quantum wire along which a moving particle interacts with a linear array of N delta-function potentials is studied. Using a quantum waveguide approach, the transfer matrix is calculated to obtain the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Cordourier-Maruri , R. de Coss , V. Gupta

The transfer matrix method remains a simple yet powerful tool for modeling acoustic systems, particularly in a closed waveguide geometry. Here we present a generalisation of this method based on the theory of mode matching, that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-04-07 D. Cidlinsky , G. J. Chaplain , S. A. R. Horsley

The two-component approach to the one-dimensional Dirac equation is applied to the Woods-Saxon potential. The scattering and bound state solutions are derived and the conditions for a transmission resonance (when the transmission…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Kennedy

This paper concerns the derivation of radiative transfer equations for acoustic waves propagating in a randomly fluctuating half-space in the weak-scattering regime, and the study of boundary effects through an asymptotic analysis of the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-12-01 Adel Messaoudi , Regis Cottereau , Christophe Gomez

A separable $x-y$ model is solved for a specialized vector potential (no magnetic and weak electric fields) penetrating slowly\textbf{,} adiabatically into and across a rectangular box to which an electron is confined. The time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Robert Englman , Asher Yahalom

Solutions of time-independent Schrodinger equation for potentials periodic in space satisfy Bloch theorem. The theorem has been used to obtain solutions of the Schrodinger equation for periodic systems by expanding them in terms of plane…

Computational Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 Manoj K. Harbola

On the basis of the transfer matrix technique an analytical method to investigate the stationary states, for an electron in one-dimensional periodic structures in an external electrical field, displaying the symmetry of the problem is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. L. Chuprikov

We prove that the effective low-energy, nonlinear Schroedinger equation for a particle in the presence of a quasiperiodic potential is the potential-free, nonlinear Schroedinger equation on noncommutative space. Thus quasiperiodicity of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Monreal , P. Fernandez de Cordoba , A. Ferrando , J. M. Isidro

The present note establishes the self-averaging, radiative transfer limit for the two-frequency Wigner distribution for classical waves in random media. Depending on the ratio of the wavelength to the correlation length the limiting…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Albert Fannjiang

We discuss the properties of a large number N of one-dimensional (bounded) locally periodic potential barriers in a finite interval. We show that the transmission coefficient, the scattering cross section $\sigma$, and the resonances of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Bar , L. P. Horwitz

For geometric systems of real principal type, we define a subprincipal symbol and derive a transport equation for polarizations which, in the scalar case, is a well-known equation of Duistermaat and H\"ormander. We apply the transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Sönke Hansen

We generalize the invariant imbedding theory of the wave propagation and derive new invariant imbedding equations for the propagation of arbitrary number of coupled waves of any kind in arbitrarily-inhomogeneous stratified media, where the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kihong Kim , Dong-Hun Lee , H. Lim

The transfer matrix is a powerful technique that can be applied to statistical mechanics systems as, for example, in the calculus of the entropy of the ice model. One interesting way to study such systems is to map it onto a 3-color…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-24 Roberto da Silva , Silvio R. Dahmen , J. R. Drugowich de Felício

This paper provides a theoretical foundation for some common formulations of inverse problems in wave propagation, based on hyperbolic systems of linear integro-differential equations with bounded and measurable coefficients. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Kirk D. Blazek , Christiaan C. Stolk , William W. Symes

Analytical expressions for the transition probability and the energy spectrum of the 1D Schr\"odinger equation with position dependent mass are presented for the triangular quantum barrier and quantum well. The transmission coefficient is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Altug Arda

The transmission eigenvalues corresponding to the half-line Schr\"odinger equation with the general selfadjoint boundary condition is analyzed when the potential is real valued, integrable, and compactly supported. It is shown that a…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-06 Tuncay Aktosun , Vassilis G. Papanicolaou

Evolution PDEs for dispersive waves are considered in both linear and nonlinear integrable cases, and initial-boundary value problems associated with them are formulated in spectral space. A method of solution is presented, which is based…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Degasperis , S. V. Manakov , P. M. Santini