English
Related papers

Related papers: Scattering-matrix model of light scattering from a…

200 papers

We present a generic transfer matrix approach for the description of the interaction of atoms possessing multiple ground state and excited state sublevels with light fields. This model allows us to treat multi-level atoms as classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 André Xuereb , Peter Domokos , Peter Horak , Tim Freegarde

Light scattering from self-affine homogeneous isotropic random rough surfaces is studied using the ray-optics approximation. Numerical methods are developed to accelerate the first-order scattering simulations from surfaces represented as…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-09 Hannu Parviainen , Karri Muinonen

The different facets of the $R$-matrix method are presented pedagogically in a general framework. Two variants have been developed over the years: $(i)$ The "calculable" $R$-matrix method is a calculational tool to derive scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Descouvemont , D. Baye

Advanced computational tools that describe the interaction of electrons with structured nanophotonic materials are crucial for theoretical predictions, specific design tasks, and the interpretation of experimental results. These tools open…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 P. Elli Stamatopoulou , Carsten Rockstuhl

Disordered nanostructures are commonly encountered in many nanophotonic systems, from colloid dispersions for sensing, to heterostructured photocatalysts. Randomness, however, imposes severe challenges for nanophotonics modeling, often…

The scattering matrix, which quantifies the optical reflection and transmission of a photonic structure, is pivotal for understanding the performance of the structure. In many photonic design tasks, it is also desired to know how the…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-30 Ziwei Zhu , Changxi Zheng

We experimentally study resonant light scattering by a one-dimensional randomly filled chain of cold two-level atoms. By a local measurement of the light scattered along the chain, we observe constructive interferences in light-induced…

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Staelens , F. Marsiglio

We propose a microscopic model to describe the scattering of light by atoms in optical lattices. The model is shown to efficiently capture Bragg scattering, spontaneous emission and photonic band gaps. A connection to the transfer matrix…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-31 M. Samoylova , N. Piovella , R. Bachelard , Ph. W. Courteille

We calculate all the elements of the Mueller matrix, which contains all the polarization properties of light scattered from a two-dimensional randomly rough lossy metal surface. The calculations are carried out for arbitrary angles of…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-12 Paul Anton Letnes , Alexei A. Maradudin , Tor Nordam , Ingve Simonsen

The fundamental processes of absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission, and elastic as well as inelastic scattering involving light and atoms, molecules, and nano-particles have been studied for decades using both classical and…

Optics · Physics 2023-10-10 Masud Mansuripur

Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

We present a novel approach of modelling surface light scattering in the context of freeform optical design. The model relies on energy conservation and optimal transport theory. For isotropic scattering in cylindrically or rotationally…

We consider scattering of a single photon by an atom or a molecule in the framework of non relativistic qed, and we express the scattering matrix for one photon scattering as a boundary value of the resolvent.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 David G. Hasler

A possible mathematical model has been proposed for motion of illuminated quantum particles seen by eyes or similar devices mapping the scattered light.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lajos Diosi

We show that the symmetries of image formation by scattering enable graph-theoretic manifold-embedding techniques to extract structural and timing information from simulated and experimental snapshots at extremely low signal. The approach…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Peter Schwander , Chun Hong Yoon , Abbas Ourmazd , Dimitrios Giannakis

Predicting the optical response of macroscopic arrangements of individual scatterers is a computational challenge, as the problem involves length scales across multiple orders of magnitude. We present a full-wave optical method to highly…

The quantum optical response of high density ultracold atomic systems is critical to a wide range of fundamentally and technically important physical processes. These include quantum image storage, optically based quantum repeaters and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. M. Sokolov , M. D. Kupriyanova , D. V. Kupriyanov , M. D. Havey

We develop a general approach for the characterization of atom-array platforms as light-matter interfaces, focusing on their application in quantum memory and photonic entanglement generation. Our approach is based on the mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Yakov Solomons , Roni Ben-Maimon , Ephraim Shahmoon

Scattering methods are widely used in many research areas to analyze and resolve material structures. Given the importance, a large number of full textbooks are devoted to this topic. However, technical details in experiments and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-02 Dingning Li , Kai Zhang