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In scattering theory, the Wigner-Smith time delay, calculated through a phaseshift derivative or its multichannel generalization, has been demonstrated to measure the amount of delay or advance experienced by colliding particles during…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Karim I. Elghazawy , Chris H. Greene

We consider a dimer formed by two particles with an attractive contact interaction in one dimension, colliding with a hard wall. We compute the scattering phase shifts and the reflection coefficients for various collision energies and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-17 Xican Zhang , Shina Tan

The diffraction of fast atoms at crystal surfaces is ideal for a detailed investigation of the surface electronic density. However, instead of sharp diffraction spots, most experiments show elongated streaks characteristic of inelastic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Philippe Roncin , Maxime Debiossac

We study the paraxial wave equation with a randomly perturbed index of refraction, which can model the propagation of a wave beam in a turbulent medium. The random perturbation is a stationary and isotropic process with a general form of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

It is known that Lorentz covariance fixes uniquely the current and the associated guidance law in the trajectory interpretation of quantum mechanics for spin-1/2 particles. In the nonrelativistic domain this implies a guidance law for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Mousavi , M. Golshani

Scattering cold particles on an $N$-slit grating is shown to reproduce an interference pattern, that manifests itself in the near-field region as the fractal Talbot carpet. In the far-field region the pattern is transformed to an ordinary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-09 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

In this work, we investigate the dynamics of the wave packet traveling through a porous semiconductor channel, with the defects being simulated by a disordered scattering region produced by obstruction potentials. The theoretical framework…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 D. S. Lopes , A. A. de Sousa , J. S. de Sousa , D. R. da Costa , T. A. S. Pereira

We theoretically describe the quasi one-dimensional transverse spreading of a light pulse propagating in a nonlinear optical material in the presence of a uniform background light intensity. For short propagation distances the pulse can be…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-07-30 M. Isoard , A. M. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

The potential scattering of electrons carrying non--zero quanta of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) is studied in a framework of the generalized Born approximation, developed in our recent paper by Karlovets \textit{et al.}, Phys. Rev. A.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 D. V. Karlovets , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo , A. Surzhykov

Semigroup algebras admit certain `coherent' deformations which, in the special case of a path algebra, may associate a periodic function to an evolving path; for a particle moving freely on a straight line after an initial impulse, the wave…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2016-12-21 Murray Gerstenhaber

The electromagnetic component waves, comprising together with their generating oscillatory massless charge a material particle, will be Doppler shifted when the charge hence particle is in motion, with a velocity $v$, as a mere mechanical…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J X Zheng-Johansson , P-I Johansson

In this paper we study the quantum wave packet and the Feynman_de Broglie_Bohm propagator of the linearized Kostin equation along a classical trajetory.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 J. M. F. Bassalo , P. T. S. Alencar , D. G. da Silva , A. B. Nassar , M. Cattani

Eisenbud-Wigner-Smith delay and the Larmor time give different estimates for the duration of a quantum scattering event. The difference is most pronounced in the case where de-Broglie wavelength is large compared to the size of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 X. Gutiérrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski

Quantum trajectories defined in the de Broglie--Bohm theory provide a causal way to interpret physical phenomena. In this Letter, we use this formalism to analyze the short time dynamics induced by unstable periodic orbits in a classically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. A. Wisniacki , F. Borondo , R. M. Benito

Asymptotic solution to many-body wave scattering problem is given in the case of many small scatterers. The small scatterers can be particles whose physical properties are described by the boundary impedances, or they can be small…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

In a single-particle detection experiment, a wavefront impinges on a detector but observers only see a point response. The extent of the wavefront becomes evident only in statistical accumulation of many independent detections, with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-26 Jonathan F. Schonfeld

Interference fringes of total atomic density with period $\lambda /4$ and $\lambda /2$ for optical wavelength $\lambda$, have been produced in de Broglie atom interferometer and directly imaged by means of an ``optical mask'' technique. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-09 Alexei Tonyushkin , Tycho Sleator

Initial momenta of de Broglie-Bohm trajectories generally do not obey quantum mechanical momentum distributions. The solution to this problem presented in the following leads to an extended hydrodynamic interpretation of quantum mechanics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Dennis M. Heim

The Compton effect is commonly cited as a demonstration of the particle feature of light, while the wave nature of matter has been proposed by de Broglie and demonstrated by Davisson and Germer with the Bragg diffraction of electron beams.…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ching-Chuan Su

de Broglie wave packets accompanying moving particles are dispersive and lack an intrinsic length scale dictated solely by the particle mass and velocity. Mackinnon proposed almost 45~years ago a localized non-dispersive wave packet…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-28 Layton A. Hall , Ayman F. Abouraddy