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We prove a uniqueness result for the broken ray transform acting on the sums of functions and $1$-forms on surfaces in the presence of an external force and a reflecting obstacle. We assume that the considered twisted geodesic flows have…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-09 Shubham R. Jathar , Manas Kar , Jesse Railo

We present a theoretical study of elastic spin-dependent electron scattering caused by a nonuniform Rashba spin-orbit coupling strength. Using the spin-generalized method of partial waves the scattering amplitude is exactly derived for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 András Pályi , Csaba Péterfalvi , József Cserti

A theory of scattering by charged dislocation lines in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) is developed. The theory is directed towards understanding transport in AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMT), which have a large…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Debdeep Jena , Arthur. C. Gossard , Umesh K. Mishra

Compton scattering plays an important role in various astrophysical objects such as accreting black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, and relativistic jets, clusters of galaxies as well as the early Universe. In most of the calculations it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-07-22 Juri Poutanen , Indrek Vurm

The Faddeev equation for three-body scattering at arbitrary energies is formulated in momentum space and directly solved in terms of momentum vectors without employing a partial wave decomposition. For identical bosons this results in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Liu , Ch. Elster , W. Gloeckle

In this work, we study the scattering of a spinless charged particle constrained to move on a curved surface in the presence of the Aharonov-Bohm potential. We begin with the equations of motion for the surface and transverse dynamics…

We are interested in the scattering problem for the cubic 3D nonlinear defocusing Schr\"odinger equation with variable coefficients. Previous scattering results for such problems address only the cases with constant coefficients or assume…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-10 David Lafontaine , Boris Shakarov

The quantum-mechanical problems of electron scattering by an infinitely thin solenoid and by a half of an infinitely thin solenoid are examined from the viewpoint of constructing a self-adjoint Hamiltonian. It is demonstrated that in both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-28 I. V. Tyutin

In this paper, based on the analysis of the formula (2.2) for calculating the elastic scattering diagrams of microparticles on a multilayer crystal surface, derived by the author in the article [3], it is shown that the stochastic approach…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mikhail Batanov-Gaukhman

Asymmetric electrical conductance is theoretically demonstrated on the surface of a topological insulator (TI) in the limit of infinitesimally small forward and reverse biases between two spin selective electrodes. The discontinuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-16 Xiaopeng Duan , Xi-Lai Li , Yuriy G. Semenov , Ki Wook Kim

We investigate the charge conductivity and current-induced spin polarization on the surface state of a three-dimensional topological insulator by including the hexagonal warping effect of Fermi surface both in classical and quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 C. M. Wang , F. J. Yu

We study the scattering of the Dirac electrons by a point-like nonmagnetic impurity on the surface of a topological insulator, driven by a time-periodic gate voltage. It is found that, due to the doublet degenerate crossing points of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-15 Ming-Xun Deng , R. Ma , Wei Luo , R. Shen , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

Inspired by the problem of elastic wave scattering on wrinkled interfaces, we studied the scattering of ballistic electrons on a wrinkled potential energy region. The electron transmission coefficient depends on both wrinkle amplitude and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 T. L. Mitran , G. A. Nemnes , L. Ion , Daniela Dragoman

A strip of 2D HgTe topological insulator is studied. The same-spin edge states in ideal system propagate in opposite directions on different sides of the strip and do not mix by tunneling. Impurities, edge irregularities, and phonons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-24 M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

We have performed scanning tunneling microscopy and differential tunneling conductance ($dI/dV$) mapping for the surface of the three dimensional topological insulator Bi$_{2}$Se$_{3}$. The fast Fourier transformation applied to the $dI/dV$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-30 Sunghun Kim , M. Ye , K. Kuroda , Y. Yamada , E. E. Krasovskii , E. V. Chulkov , K. Miyamoto , M. Nakatake , T. Okuda , Y. Ueda , K. Shimada , H. Namatame , M. Taniguchi , A. Kimura

Inelastic scattering of electrons incident on a solid surface is determined by the two properties: (i) electronic response of the target system and (ii) the detailed quantum-mechanical motion of the projectile electron inside and in the…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-06 V. U. Nazarov , V. M. Silkin , E. E. Krasovskii

A theoretical study is presented on the scattering of graphene surface plasmons by defects in the graphene sheet they propagate in. These defects can be either natural (as domain boundaries, ripples and cracks, among others) or induced by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-31 Juan L. Garcia-Pomar , Alexey Yu. Nikitin , Luis Martin-Moreno

This paper presents an alternative formulation of the geodesic normal distribution on the sphere, building on the work of Hauberg (2018). While the isotropic version of this distribution is naturally defined on the sphere, the anisotropic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-25 José E. Chacón , Andrea Meilán-Vila

A general partial-wave multiple scattering theory for scattering from cylindrically symmetric potentials on a topological insulator (TI) surface is developed. As an application, the cross sections for a single scatterer and two scatterers…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 Zhen-Guo Fu , Ping Zhang , Zhigang Wang , Shu-Shen Li

In current scientific and technological scenario, studies of transmittance of surface waves across structured interfaces have gained some wind amidst applications to metasurfaces, electronic edge-waves, crystal grain boundaries, etc. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-09-18 Basant Lal Sharma