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To clarify the relation of energy shifts to scattering phase shifts in one-body and many-body problems, we examine their relation in a number of different situations. We derive, for a particle in a container of arbitrary shape with a…
We analyze the scattering of elliptically polarized plane waves normally incident at the planar interface between two different materials; we consider two cases: dielectric-dielectric and dielectric-conductor interfaces. The scattering…
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 have previously studied properties of a one-dimensional potential with $N$ equally spaced identical barriers in a (fixed) finite interval for both finite and infinite $N$. It was observed that scattering and spectral properties depend…
The general formulas to calculate the phase shifts of wave function of a particle scattering on a target formed by a pair of non-identical zero-range potentials are derived. It is shown that at asymptotically great distances from the target…
The scattering of two and more particles at low energies is described by the so called effective-range expansion. The leading terms of this expansion are the scattering length and effective range. The analytic expressions for both of the…
The upside-down $-x^4$, $-x^6$, and $-x^8$ potentials with appropriate PT-symmetric boundary conditions have real, positive, and discrete quantum-mechanical spectra. This paper proposes a straightforward macroscopic quantum-mechanical…
The normalization of scattering states is more than a rote step necessary to calculate expectation values. This normalization actually contains important information regarding the density of the scattering spectrum (along with useful…
The scattering state solutions of the Klein-Gordon equation with equal scalar and vector Varshni, Hellmann and Varshni-Shukla potentials for any arbitrary angular momentum quantum number l are investigated within the framework of the…
We analyze how a short distance boundary condition for the Schrodinger equation must change as a function of the boundary radius by imposing the physical requirement of phase shift independence on the boundary condition. The resulting…
A model-potential approach to calculating positron-molecule binding energies and annihilation rates is developed. Unlike existing ab initio calculations, which have mostly been applied to strongly polar molecules, the present methodology…
Motivated by recently developed techniques making it possible to compute Casimir energies for any object whose scattering S-matrix (or, equivalently, T-matrix) is available, we develop a variable phase method to compute the S-matrix for…
The Levinson theorem for two-dimensional scattering is generalized for potentials with inverse square singularities. By this theorem, the number of bound states in a given m-th partial wave is related to the phase shift and the singularity…
We investigate the scattering and two-body bound states of two ultracold atoms in a quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) confinement, with the confinement potential being an infinite square well (box potential) in the transverse ($z$-)…
We derive the relation between the scattering phase shift and the two-particle energy in the finite box, which is relevant for extracting the strong phase shifts in lattice QCD. We consider elastic scattering of two particles with different…
A model-potential method is employed to calculate binding, elastic scattering, and annihilation of positrons for a number of atoms and small nonpolar molecules, namely, Be, Mg, He, Ar, H$_2$, N$_2$, Cl$_2$, and CH$_4$. The model potential…
We show how the scattering phase shift, the s-wave scattering length and the p-wave scattering volume can be obtained from Riccati equations derived in variable phase theory. We find general expressions that provide upper and lower bounds…
We explore the relationships between scattering states and bound states of different non-analytic segments (depending on $|x|$) of the exponential potential, and elucidate the status of the special scattering states found in an earlier…
The presence of a large applied magnetic field removes the degeneracy of the vacuum energy states for spin-up and spin-down neutrons. For polarized neutron reflectometry, this must be included in the reference potential energy of the…
The universal three-body dynamics in ultra-cold binary gases confined to one-dimensional motion are studied. The three-body binding energies and the (2 + 1)-scattering lengths are calculated for two identical particles of mass $m$ and a…