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Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

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Localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) have recently been identified in extremely diluted electron systems obtained by doping semiconductor quantum dots. Here we investigate the role that different surface effects, namely electronic…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-29 R. Carmina Monreal , Tomasz J. Antosiewicz , S. Peter Apell

An accurate and efficient numerical simulation approach to electromagnetic wave scattering from two-dimensional, randomly rough, penetrable surfaces is presented. The use of the M\"uller equations and an impedance boundary condition for a…

Optics · Physics 2010-06-03 Ingve Simonsen , Alexei A. Maradudin , Tamara A. Leskova

Leveraging topological properties in the response of electromagnetic systems can greatly enhance their potential. Although the investigation of singularity-based electromagnetics and non-Hermitian electronics has considerably increased in…

By decoupling the geometric from the dynamical contributions in the scattering processes, we develop a method to compute the scattering matrix of electrons in a one-dimensional coherent conductor connected to two electrodes. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Lorenzo Bagnasacco , Fabio Taddei , Vittorio Giovannetti

Topological defects in solids, usually described by complicated boundary conditions in elastic theory, may be described more simply as sources of a gravity- like deformation field in the geometric approach of Katanaev and Volovich. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. de Padua , Fernando Parisio-Filho , Fernando Moraes

The polarization properties of the elastic electron scattering on H-like ions are investigated within the framework of the relativistic QED theory. The polarization properties are determined by a combination of relativistic effects and spin…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 D. M. Vasileva , K. N. Lyashchenko , A. B. Voitkiv , D. Yu , O. Yu. Andreev

We investigate the scattering of hydrogen isotopes at the W(110) surface using both classical and quantum dynamics approaches to elucidate the role of quantum effects in this system. To characterize the scattering process we focus on key…

We investigate the geodesics in the entire class of nonexpanding impulsive gravitational waves propagating in an (anti-)de Sitter universe using the distributional form of the metric. Employing a 5-dimensional embedding formalism and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-03 Clemens Sämann , Roland Steinbauer , Alexander Lecke , Jiří Podolský

Constant energy contour (CEC) of the surface bands in topological insulators varies not only with materials but also at different energies. The quasiparticle interference caused by scattering-off from defects on the surface of topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-01 Qin Liu

Partially gated two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) represent the basic building block of prospective optoelectronic devices, including electromagnetic detectors and sources. At the same time, the electrodynamic properties of such…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Ilia Moiseenko , Egor Nikulin , Dmitry Svintsov

The purpose of this paper is to study transport equations on the unit tangent bundle of closed oriented Riemannian surfaces and to connect these to the transport twistor space of the surface (a complex surface naturally tailored to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-01-29 Jan Bohr , Thibault Lefeuvre , Gabriel P. Paternain

In this article: a) a method is developed for calculating volumetric diagrams of elastic scattering of microparticles (in particular, electrons and photons) on single-layer and multi-layer statistically uneven surfaces; b) the diffraction…

General Physics · Physics 2021-04-06 Mikhail Batanov-Gaukhman

We investigated the electronic properties of the topological insulator Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at low temperature. We obtained high-resolution quasiparticle interference data of the topological…

We report on a systematic investigation of the dominant scattering mechanism in shallow two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed in modulation-doped GaAs/Al_{x}Ga_{1-x}As heterostructures. The power-law exponent of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 D. Laroche , S. Das Sarma , G. Gervais , M. P. Lilly , J. L. Reno

Incoherent surface scattering yields a statistical description of the surface, due to the ensemble averaging over many independently sampled volumes. Depending on the state of the surface and direction of the scattering vector relative to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Dale , Aaron Fleet , Y. Suzuki , J. D. Brock

We study backscattering of electrons and conductance suppression in a helical edge channel in two-dimensional topological insulators with broken axial spin symmetry in the presence of nonmagnetic point defects that create bound states. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Vladimir A. Sablikov , Aleksei A. Sukhanov

A topological insulator is classically modeled as an isotropic dielectric-magnetic with a magnetoelectric pseudoscalar $\Psi$ existing in its bulk while its surface is charge-free and current-free. An alternative model is obtained by…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-06 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

Surfaces sputtered by ion beam bombardment have been known to exhibit patterns whose behavior is modeled with stochastic partial differential equations. A widely accepted model is the Cuerno-Barabasi model which is robust in its predictions…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-30 Emmanuel O. Yewande , Raphael O. Akande

The geometry of impulsive pp-waves is explored via the analysis of the geodesic and geodesic deviation equation using the distributional form of the metric. The geodesic equation involves formally ill-defined products of distributions due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Roland Steinbauer