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We explore wave-mechanical scattering in two spatial dimensions assuming that the corresponding potential is invariant under linear symmetry transforms such as rotations, reflections and coordinate exchange. Usually the asymptotic…

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Electrodynamics of rotating systems is expected to exhibit novel nonlocal features that come about when acceleration-induced nonlocality is introduced into the special relativity theory in conformity with the Bohr-Rosenfeld principle. The…

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Distance-dependent phase shifts, amplitude functions, and radial wave functions for neutron-alpha elastic scattering are studied using the Variable Phase Approach. The microscopic KKNN potential is employed to calculate scattering…

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The optical model potentials for nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering at $65$~MeV are calculated for $^{12}$C, $^{16}$O, $^{28}$Si, $^{40}$Ca, $^{56}$Fe, $^{90}$Zr and $^{208}$Pb in first order multiple scattering theory, following the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 C. R. Chinn , Ch. Elster , R. M. Thaler , S. P. Weppner

Nonlocal neural networks have been proposed and shown to be effective in several computer vision tasks, where the nonlocal operations can directly capture long-range dependencies in the feature space. In this paper, we study the nature of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Yunzhe Tao , Qi Sun , Qiang Du , Wei Liu

Nucleon-nucleon potential is given in coordinate space starting from the Bethe-Salpeter equation appropriate to elastic scattering at the intermediate energy region. The next order in the potential is added to construct the scattering wave…

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A Newton-Sabatier fixed energy inversion scheme has been used to equate inherently non-local p-${}^{12}$C potentials at a variety of energies to pion threshold, with exactly phase equivalent local ones. Those energy dependent local…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 A. Lovell , K. Amos

The influence of the energy dependence of the free NN t-matrix on the optical potential of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering is investigated within the context of a full-folding model based on the impulse approximation. The treatment of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ch. Elster , S. P. Weppner

The contribution of collective or reaction channels to a local optical model potential, OMP, can be readily calculated as a dynamical polarization potential, DPP. The resulting local DPPs commonly have undulatory (`wavy') features, often…

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Non-local elasticity models in continuum mechanics can be treated with two different approaches: the gradient elasticity models (weak non-locality) and the integral non-local models (strong non-locality). This article focuses on the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 Vasily E. Tarasov

We put forward a strategy to achieve synthetic nonlinearities where local and nonlocal contributions compete on similar footing, thus yielding intermediate tunable responses ranging from fully local to strongly nonlocal. The physical…

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The S-wave effective range parameters of the neutron-deuteron (nd) scattering are derived in the Faddeev formalism, using a nonlocal Gaussian potential based on the quark-model baryon-baryon interaction fss2. The spin-doublet low-energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Kenji Fukukawa , Yoshikazu Fujiwara

Thirty elastic scattering angular distributions for seven heavy-ion systems, in wide energy ranges, have been studied with the aim of systematizing the optical potential, real and imaginary parts, in a global way. The framework is: i) an…

We reveal the relevance between the nonlocality and the focusing/defocusing states in nonlocally nonlinear media, and predict a novel phenomenon that the self-focusing/self-defocusing property of the optical beam in the nonlocally nonlinear…

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We introduce the concept of self-energy dispersion as an error bound on local theories and apply it to the two-dimensional Hubbard model on the square lattice at half-filling. Since the self-energy has no single-particle analog and is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-12-12 Thomas Mertz , Karim Zantout , Roser Valenti

We consider a quantum theory of elastic light scattering from a macroscopic atomic sample existing in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phase. The dynamics of the optical excitation induced by an incident photon is influenced by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 V. M. Porozova , L. V. Gerasimov , M. D. Havey , D. V. Kupriyanov

We investigate the dynamics of a particle in a confined periodic system---a time-dependent oscillator confined by infinitely high and moving walls---and focus on the evolution of the phase of the wavefunction. It is shown that, for some…

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A new method is proposed for extrapolation of elastic-scattering data to the negative-energy region for a short-range interaction. The method is based on the analytic approximation of the modulus-squared of the partial-wave scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 L. D. Blokhintsev , A. S. Kadyrov , A. M. Mukhamedzhanov , D. A. Savin

We provide theoretical and numerical tools to quantitatively study the impact of nonlocality arising from free electrons in metals on the optical properties of metallo-dielectric multilayers. Though effects due to nonlocality are in general…