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We investigate the scattering phenomena in two dimensions produced by a general finite-range nonseparable potential. This situation can appear either in a Cartesian geometry or in a heterostructure with cylindrical symmetry. Increasing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-03 P. N. Racec , E. R. Racec , H. Neidhardt

We present a scattering theory description for the inelastic current noise in the presence of electron-vibration interactions. In this description, we specify elastic and inelastic scattering contributions to the shot noise by examining…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Sejoong Kim

The energy spectrum of the extended attractive potential of a crystallographic row for negatively charged particles has quasi-bound states. It follows that a negatively charged particle with small transversal momentum component ($p_{\bot} R…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-12 Gennady V. Kovalev

Compton scattering is the nonresonant inelastic scattering of an x-ray photon by an electron and has been used to probe the electron momentum distribution in gas-phase and condensed-matter samples. In the low x-ray intensity regime, Compton…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-16 Sang-Kil Son , Otfried Geffert , Robin Santra

We present an approach for initiating and tracing ultra-fast electron dynamics in core-excited atoms, molecules and solids. The approach is based on stimulated resonant inelastic x-ray scattering induced by a single, chirped, broadband…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Maximilian Hollstein , Nina Rohringer

We investigate electron vortex beams elastically scattered on chiral crystals. After deriving a general expression for the scattering amplitude of a vortex electron, we study its diffraction on point scatterers arranged on a helix. We…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-04-01 Roeland Juchtmans , Armand Béché , Artem Abakumov , Maria Batuk , Jo Verbeeck

It is shown that resonance scattering of fast ($pL > >pR > > 1$, $p$ is the particle momentum, $L$ is the longitudinal dimension of the potential, and $R$ is its transverse dimension) charged particles occurs in the extended potential. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-21 Gennady V. Kovalev , Nikolay P. Kalashnikov

In this paper, based on the analysis of the formula (2.2) for calculating the elastic scattering diagrams of microparticles on a multilayer crystal surface, derived by the author in the article [3], it is shown that the stochastic approach…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Mikhail Batanov-Gaukhman

The Fraunhofer diffraction of quantum particles from materials with sharp electron-density edges or symmetric bond structures is ubiquitous. In contrast, diffraction from atoms with characteristic asymptotically-diffused electron…

We present a model of non-ionizing scattering of electrons on atomic ensemble in matter, applicable in a wide electron energy range from ~eV up to relativistic ones. The approach based on the dynamic-structure factor formalism considers…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-17 N. Medvedev , D. I. Zainutdinov , A. E. Volkov

Refraction and diffraction of waves in natural crystals and artificial crystals formed by anisotropically scattering centers are considered. A detailed study of the electromagnetic wave refraction in a two-dimensional photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-30 V. G. Baryshevsky , E. A. Gurnevich

In this work, we study the elastic scattering behavior of electron vortices when propagating through amorphous samples. We use a formulation of the multislice approach in cylindrical coordinates to theoretically investigate the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-22 Stefan Löffler , Stefan Sack , Thomas Schachinger

We describe, within the framework of quantum electrodynamics, an interaction between a non-resonant hard x-ray pulse and an electronic system in the presence of a temporally periodic laser field driving electron dynamics in this system. We…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-11 Daria Popova-Gorelova , David A. Reis , Robin Santra

We consider the fast charged particles scattering in ultrathin crystals on the base of the Born approxima-tion of quantum electrodynamics. The main attention is paid to the question of the scattering cross section splitting into coherent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Nikolai Shul'ga , Viktoriia Koriukina

Electron motion on the (sub-)femtosecond time scale constitutes the fastest response in many natural phenomena such as light-induced phase transitions and chemical reactions. Whereas static electron densities in single molecules can be…

Recent advances in electron microscopy allowed the generation of high-energy electron wave packets of ultrashort duration. Here we present a non-perturbative S-matrix theory for scattering of ultrashort electron wave packets by atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yuya Morimoto , Lars Bojer Madsen

The current flux density is a vector field that can be used to describe theoretically how electrons flow in a system out-of-equilibrium. In this work, we unequivocally demonstrate that the signal obtained from time-resolved X-ray scattering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-04 Gunter Hermann , Vincent Pohl , Gopal Dixit , Jean Christophe Tremblay

The capability to probe the dispersion of elementary spin, charge, orbital, and lattice excitations has positioned resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) at the forefront of photon science. Here we develop the scattering theory for RIXS…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-10 Pasquale Marra , Steffen Sykora , Krzysztof Wohlfeld , Jeroen van den Brink

We have recorded the coherent diffraction images of individual xenon clusters with intense extreme ultraviolet pulses to elucidate the influence of light-induced electronic changes on the diffraction pattern. Using the FLASH free-electron…

Established x-ray diffraction methods allow for high-resolution structure determination of crystals, crystallized protein structures or even single molecules. While these techniques rely on coherent scattering, incoherent processes like…