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Using the general expressions for level shifts obtained from the master equation for a small system interacting with a large one considered as a reservoir, we calculate the dispersive potentials between an atom and a wall in the dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. N. C. Mendes , C. Farina

Background: One important ingredient for many applications of nuclear physics to astrophysics, nuclear energy, and stockpile stewardship are cross sections for reactions of neutrons with rare isotopes. Since direct measurements are often…

We have performed confocal microscopy experiments and computer simulations of colloidal suspensions with moderate volume fraction confined between two quasi-parallel, rough walls [A. Villada-Balbuena et al., Soft Matter, 2022, 18,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-30 Gerhard Jung , Alejandro Villada-Balbuena , Thomas Franosch

The effects of quantum confinement on the momentum distribution of electrons confined within a cylindrical potential well have been analyzed. The motivation is to understand specific features of the momentum distribution of electrons when…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 A. S. Baltenkov , A. Z. Msezane

A general new technique to solve the two-center problem with arbitrarily-orientated deformed realistic potentials is demonstrated, which is based on the powerful potential separable expansion method. As an example, molecular single-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 Alexis Diaz-Torres

It is demonstrated for the first time that in spite of well known big similarities between atomic ionization by photons and fast electrons, a qualitative difference exists in angular anisotropy parameters of electrons knocked out in these…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ya. Amusia , L. V. Chernysheva , E. Z. Liverts

Simultaneous $\chi^{2}$ analyses are performed for elastic scattering and fusion cross section data for the $^{12}$C+$^{208}$Pb system at near-Coulomb-barrier energies by using the extended optical model approach in which the polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Y. So , T. Udagawa , S. W. Hong , B. T. Kim

Atom-atom scattering of bosonic one-dimensional (1D) atoms has been modeled successfully using a zero-range delta-function potential, while that of bosonic 3D atoms has been modeled successfully using Fermi-Huang's regularized s-wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Kanjilal , D. Blume

Maxwell's equations in the vacuum can be formally cast in the form of Schr\"odinger's equation. Unfortunately, the vector to which this equation directly applies is not a wavefunction: its amplitude squared is not a probability density but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Stéphane Virally

We minimized the interface diffuseness in the phase-field models by introducing the parabolic double-well potential and localizing the solute redistribution (or latent heat release) into a narrow region within the phase-field interface. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Seong Gyoon Kim , Won Tae Kim , Toshio Suzuki

Polar optical phonons are studied in the framework of the dielectric continuum approach for a prototypical quantum-dot/quantum-well (QD/QW) heterostructure, including the derivation of the electron-phonon interaction Hamiltonian and a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Comas , Nelson Studart

We propose a new type of effective densities via the potential distribution theorem. These densities are for the sake of enabling the mapping of the free energy of a uniform fluid onto that of a nonuniform fluid. The potential distribution…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-02-21 L. L. Lee , G. Pellicane

I present numerical study of an elastic scattering by solving second order differential equations of Schroedinger Equation for some types of central potential (eg. square well, Yukawa, and Woods-Saxon) to find the wave function inside the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-14 C. Wibisono

A flexible multi-parameter exactly solvable model of potential profile, containing an arbitrary number of continuous smoothly shaped barriers and wells, both equal or unequal, characterized by finite values and continuous profiles of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander Shvartsburg , Vladimir Kuzmiak , Guillaume Petite

The transcorrelated (TC) method performs a similarity transformation on the electronic Schr\"odinger equation via Jastrow factorization of the wave function. This has demonstrated significant advancements in computational electronic…

It is demonstrated that the fullerene shell affects dramatically the radiative and Auger vacancy decay of an endohedral atom A@C60. The collectivized electrons of the C60 shell add new possibilities for radiative and non-radiative decays…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 M. Ya. Amusia , A. S. Baltenkov

Photoionization calculations of the endofullerene molecule Cl@$C_{60}$ with an open-shell chlorine atom are performed in the time-dependent local density approximation (TDLDA) based on a spherical jellium model. Cross sections for…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2021-06-08 Dakota Shields , Ruma De , Mohamed El-Amine Madjet , Steven T. Manson , Himadri S. Chakraborty

Current-free double layers of the type reported in plasmas in the presence of an expanding magnetic field [C. Charles and R. W. Boswell, Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1356 (2003)] are modeled theoretically and with particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 S. D. Baalrud , T. Lafleur , R. W. Boswell , C. Charles

We study the photoionization properties of the C_60 versus C_240 molecule in a spherical jellium frame of density functional method. Two different approximations to the exchange-correlation (xc) functional are used: (i) The…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2021-06-08 Jinwoo Choi , EonHo Chang , Dylan M. Anstine , Mohamed El-Amine Madjet , Himadri S. Chakraborty

This paper presents a point-wise divergence-free projection method for numerical approximations of photonic quasicrystals problems. The original three-dimensional quasiperiodic Maxwell's system is transformed into a periodic one in higher…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Zixuan Gao , Zhenli Xu , Zhiguo Yang