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We study the scattering rigidity problem in Lorentzian geometry: recovery of a Lorentzian metric from the scattering relation known on a lateral timelike boundary. We show that one can recover the jet of the metric up to a gauge…

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Symmetry plays fundamental role in physics and the nature of symmetry changes in non-Hermitian physics. Here the symmetry-protected scattering in non-Hermitian linear systems is investigated by employing the discrete symmetries that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 L. Jin , Z. Song

We study the elastic scattering of quantum particles based on a real Hilbert space approach to quaternionic quantum mechanics ($\mathbbm H$QM) and derive expression for the wave function, the phase shifts, as well as the optical theorem for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Sergio Giardino

We discuss how a standard scattering theory a of multi-particle theory generalises to systems based on Hamiltonians that involve higher-order derivatives in their quantum mechanical formulation. As concrete examples, we consider Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-22 Andreas Fring , Bethan Turner

Many indefinite-metric (often called pseudo-Hermitian or PT-symmetric) quantum models H prove "physical" (i.e., Hermitian with respect to an innovated, ad hoc scalar product) inside a characteristic domain of parameters D. This means that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil

We present a method to reconstruct the dielectric susceptibility (scattering potential) of an inhomogeneous scattering medium, based on the solution to the inverse scattering problem with internal sources. We employ the theory of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Yakun Dong , Kamran Sadiq , Otmar Scherzer , John C. Schotland

A universal numerical method is developed for the investigation of magnetic neutron scattering. By applying the pseudospectral-time-domain (PSTD) algorithm to the spinor version of the Schr\"odinger equation, the evolution of the spin-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Kun Chen

We review recent results obtained in the scattering theory of dissipative quantum systems representing the long-time evolution of a system $S$ interacting with another system $S'$ and susceptible of being absorbed by $S'$. The effective…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jérémy Faupin

We deform the real potential of Poeschl and Teller by a shift of its coordinate in imaginary direction. We show that the new model remains exactly solvable. Its bound states are constructed in closed form. Wave functions are complex and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil

We consider the scattering theory for the Schrodinger equation with $-\Delta -|x|^{\alpha}$ as a reference Hamiltonian, for $0< \alpha \leq 2$, in any space dimension. We prove that when this Hamiltonian is perturbed by a potential, the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jean-Francois Bony , Remi Carles , Dietrich Haefner , Laurent Michel

This paper is devoted to the construction of what we will call {\em exactly solvable models}, i.e. of quantum mechanical systems described by an Hamiltonian $H$ whose eigenvalues and eigenvectors can be explicitly constructed out of some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 Fabio Bagarello

The Mie scattering theory enables the exact determination of the scattered field as a function of the incident field. Here, we use this approach to calculate the Hermitian relationship between the incident field and the optical forces…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-01 Michael Mazilu

Non-Hermitian but P(phi)T(phi)-symmetrized spherically-separable Dirac and Schrodinger Hamiltonians are considered. It is observed that the descendant Hamiltonians H(r), H(theta), and H(phi) play essential roles and offer some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Omar Mustafa , S. Habib Mazharimousavi

Robust topological edge modes may evolve into complex-frequency modes when a physical system becomes non-Hermitian. We show that, while having negligible forward optical extinction cross section, a conjugate pair of such complex topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 C. W. Ling , Ka Hei Choi , T. C. Mok , Z. Q. Zhang , Kin Hung Fung

This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

Recently, the search for topological states of matter has turned to non-Hermitian systems, which exhibit a rich variety of unique properties without Hermitian counterparts. Lattices modeled through non-Hermitian Hamiltonians appear in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 V. M. Martinez Alvarez , J. E. Barrios Vargas , M. Berdakin , L. E. F. Foa Torres

Motivated by recent experimental implementations of artificial gauge fields for gases of cold atoms, we study the scattering properties of particles that are subjected to time-periodic Hamiltonians. Making use of Floquet theory, we focus on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-12 Thomas Bilitewski , Nigel R. Cooper

So far only quasifree fields have been shown to satisfy the Haag-Araki axioms for local algebras of observables; we show from a model in 1 + 1 dimensions that there can be representations in which two ingoing free particles produce a pair…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-13 R. F. Streater

We establish that a perfect-transmission scattering problem can be described by a class of parity and time reversal symmetric operators and hereby we provide a scenario for understanding and implementing the corresponding quasi-Hermitian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 H. Hernandez-Coronado , D. Krejcirik , P. Siegl

I present a review of the recent advancements in scattering theory, which provides a unified approach to studying dispersive and hyperbolic equations with general interaction terms and data. These equations encompass time-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Avy Soffer