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We consider a 2D ballistic and quasi-ballistic structures with spin-orbit-related splitting of the electron spectrum. The ballistic region is attached to the leads with a voltage applied between them. We calculate the edge spin density…

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This work continues the development of the raytracing method of [1] for computing the scattered fields from metasurfaces characterized by locally periodic reflection and transmission coefficients. In this work, instead of describing the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-16 Scott Stewart , Yvo L. C. de Jong , Tom J. Smy , Shulabh Gupta

Because of high surface-to-volume ratio, the most prominent size effect limiting thermal transport originates from phonon-surface scattering in nanostructures. Herein we propose the mechanism of phonon scattering by the bond strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Guofeng Xie , Gang Zhang

In this paper, we investigate well-posedness of time-harmonic scattering of elastic waves by unbounded rigid rough surfaces in three dimensions. The elastic scattering is caused by an $L^2$ function with a compact support in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Guanghui Hu , Tianjiao Wang , Xiang Xu , Yue Zhao

We use the bulk Hamiltonian for a three-dimensional topological insulator such as $\rm Bi_2 Se_3$ to study the states which appear on its various surfaces and along the edge between two surfaces. We use both analytical methods based on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Oindrila Deb , Abhiram Soori , Diptiman Sen

We exhibit orbits of the geodesic flow on a hyperbolic surface with at least one cusp such that every tubular neighborhood contains uncountably many distinct geodesic flow orbits. The proof relies on new phenomena, namely the existence of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-08 Sergi Burniol Clotet , Françoise Dal'Bo

We develop a formulation of the strong deflection limit for the scattering of particles following timelike geodesics in asymptotically flat, static, and spherically symmetric spacetimes. For fixed specific energy, as the angular momentum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Takahisa Igata , Yohsuke Takamori

Colliding high energy hadrons either produce new particles or scatter elastically with their quantum numbers conserved and no other particles produced. We consider the latter case here. Although inelastic processes dominate at high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 I. M. Dremin

Utilizing the scales theory of electromagnetic theory, the anisotropic dielectric material is reconstructed into an isotropic medium. The analytic expressions of scattering field and the scattering breadth for an anisotropic material…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Y-L Li , J Li

In this work we devise a theoretical and computational method to compute the elastic scattering of electrons from a non-spherical potential, such as in the case of molecules and molecular aggregates. Its main feature is represented by the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Francesca Triggiani , Tommaso Morresi , Simone Taioli , Stefano Simonucci

The electromagnetic scattering properties of topological insulator (TI) spheres are systematically studied in this paper. Unconventional backward scattering caused by the topological magneto-electric (TME) effect of TIs are found in both…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-16 Lixin Ge , Dezhuan Han , Jian Zi

Inelastic electron scattering by the adsorbate covered Pt(100) single crystal surface is studied by Disappearance Potential Spectroscopy and density of states (DOS) calculations. Two peculiar channels of elastic electron consumption are…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-17 A. R. Cholach , V. M. Tapilin

We study the characteristics of scattering processes at step edges on the surfaces of Strong Topological Insulators (STI), arising from restrictions imposed on the $S$-matrix \emph{solely} by time reversal symmetry and translational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Rudro R. Biswas , Alexander V. Balatsky

In this work, we employed non-equilibrium Green's function to investigate the electron transport properties in the nanowire with the presence of scatterings. The scattering mechanism is modelled by using the concept of B\"uttiker probe. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jing Li , Tin Cheung Au Yeung , Chan Hin Kam

Motivated by recent photoemission experiments on the surface of topological insulators we compute the spectrum of driven topological surface excitations in the presence of an external light source. We completely characterize the spectral…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-30 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Y. H. Wang , N. Gedik , Victor Galitski

Elastic scattering of a twisted (Bessel) electron beam by CO$_2$ molecules is studied theoretically at high energies. The molecule's structure is optimized using coupled cluster theory and density functional theory with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Raul Sheldon Pinto , Rakesh Choubisa

We study the low temperature conductivity of the electron accumulation layer induced by the very strong electric field at the surface of $\text{SrTiO}_3$ sample. Due to the strongly nonlinear lattice dielectric response, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-21 Han Fu , K. V. Reich , B. I. Shklovskii

We report elastic scattering theory for surface electron waves in quantum corrals defined by adatoms on the surface of noble metals. We develop a scattering-matrix technique that allows us to account for a realistic smooth potential profile…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. I. Rahachou , I. V. Zozoulenko

Different scattering mechanisms in graphene are explored and conductivity is calculated within the Boltzmann transport theory. We provide results for short-range scattering using the Random Phase Approximation for electron screening, as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-03-15 Shaffique Adam , E. H. Hwang , S. Das Sarma

We investigate the propagation of electrons in a circular quantum dot of monolayer Molybdenium disulfide MoS_2, subjected to an electric potential. Using the continuum model, we present analytical expressions for the eigenstates, scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Abdelhadi Belouad , Abdellatif Kamal , Rachid Houça , El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Mohammed El Bouziani