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Scattering of electromagnetic waves lies at the heart of most experimental techniques over nearly the entire electromagnetic spectrum, ranging from radio waves to optics and X-rays. Hence, deep insight into the basics of scattering theory…

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We prove sharp wavenumber-explicit error bounds for first- or second-family-N\'ed\'elec-element (a.k.a. edge-element) conforming discretisations, of arbitrary (fixed) order, of the variable-coefficient time-harmonic Maxwell equations posed…

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A uniqueness theorem for time-harmonic electromagnetic fields which requires the normal components of electromagnetic fields specified on a spherical surface is proposed and proved. The statement of the theorem is : "For a spherical volume…

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We investigate the scattering problem of a two-particle composite system on a delta-function potential. Using the time independent scattering theory, we study how the transmission/reflection coefficients change with the height of external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Tieling Song , Wei Zhu , D. L. Zhou

The scattering of quantum particles by non-hermitian (generally nonlocal) potentials in one dimension may result in asymmetric transmission and/or reflection from left and right incidence. Eight generalized symmetries based on the discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 A. Ruschhaupt , T. Dowdall , M. A. Simón , J. G. Muga

In this work we study the scattering and transfer matrices for electric fields defined with respect to an angular spectrum of plane waves. For these matrices, we derive the constraints that are enforced by conservation of energy,…

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Analytical solutions are presented for the electromagnetic radiation by an arbitrary pulsed source into a homogeneous time-varying background medium. In the constant-impedance case an explicit radiation formula is obtained for the…

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In this paper, we consider acoustic or electromagnetic scattering in two dimensions from an infinite three-layer medium with thousands of wavelength-size dielectric particles embedded in the middle layer. Such geometries are typical of…

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A quantization scheme for the phenomenological Maxwell theory of the full electromagnetic field in an inhomogeneous three-dimensional, dispersive and absorbing dielectric medium is developed. The classical Maxwell equations with spatially…

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In the present article the classical problem of electromagnetic scattering by a single homogeneous sphere is revisited. Main focus is the study of the scattering behavior as a function of the material contrast and the size parameters for…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-28 Dimitrios C. Tzarouchis , Pasi Ylä-Oijala , Ari Sihvola

In this paper, we consider the direct and inverse problem of scattering of time-harmonic waves by an unbounded rough interface with a buried impenetrable obstacle. We first study the well-posedness of the direct problem with a local source…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-09 Yulong Lu , Bo Zhang

We consider the convected Helmholtz equation modeling linear acoustic propagation at a fixed frequency in a subsonic flow around a scattering object. The flow is supposed to be uniform in the exterior domain far from the object, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-16 Fabien Casenave , Alexandre Ern , Guillaume Sylvand

Electromagnetic fields in bulk bianisotropic media can be represented using plane waves whose k-vectors can be found using the index of refraction operator method and belong to the Fresnel wave surfaces that fall into one of the 5…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-21 Maxim Durach

The classical Mie theory - electromagnetic radiation scattering by the homogeneous spherical particles - is considered in the epsilon near zero limits separately for the materials of the particles and the surrounding medium. The maxima of a…

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In this work we obtain the exact analytical scattering solutions of a particle (electron or hole) in a semiconductor double heterojunction - potential well / barrier - where the effective mass of the particle varies with position inside the…

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Manipulation of radiation is required for enabling a span of electromagnetic applications. Since properties of antennas and scatterers are very sensitive to a surrounding environment, macroscopic artificially created materials are good…

Transmission probabilities of the scattering problem with a position dependent mass are studied. After sketching the basis of the theory, within the context of the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for spatially varying effective mass, the simplest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ramazan Koc , Mehmet Koca , Gultekin Sahinoglu

The interface problem describing the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a dielectric body is often formulated as a pair of coupled boundary integral equations for the electric and magnetic current densities on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-28 Martin Costabel , Frédérique Le Louër

It is proved that an inhomogeneous medium whose boundary contains a weakly singular point of arbitrary order scatters every incoming wave. Similarly, a compactly supported source term with weakly singular points on the boundary always…

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