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We present a generic transfer matrix approach for the description of the interaction of atoms possessing multiple ground state and excited state sublevels with light fields. This model allows us to treat multi-level atoms as classical…

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We present a detailed analytical and numerical analysis of the inelastic coherent backscattering spectrum of laser light incident on cold atoms. We identify frequency domains where the interference contribution can be positive \emph{as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Vyacheslav Shatokhin , Thomas Wellens , Benoît Grémaud , Andreas Buchleitner

We study the two-photon scattering processes in a one-dimensional waveguide coupled to a two- or three-level giant atom, respectively. The accumulated phase shift between the two coupling points can be utilized to alter the scattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Wenju Gu , He Huang , Zhen Yi , Lei Chen , Lihui Sun , Huatang Tan

The low-frequency profiles of some pulsars manifest temporal broadening due to scattering, usually accompanied by flat polarization position angle (PA) curves. Assuming that the scattering works on the 4 Stokes parameters in the same way,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 X. H. Li , J. L. Han

The intensity and the linear scattering polarization profiles of the hydrogen Ly-alpha line encode valuable information on the thermodynamic and magnetic structure of the upper layers of the solar chromosphere. The Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-03 Ernest Alsina Ballester , Luca Belluzzi , Javier Trujillo Bueno

In this paper we introduce a notion of scattering theory for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on non-compact, connected and complete Riemannian manifolds. A principal condition is given by a certain positive lower bound of the second…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 K. Ito , E. Skibsted

Velocity gradients in a stellar atmospheric plasma have an impact on the anisotropy of the radiation field that illuminates each point within the medium, and this may in principle influence the scattering line polarization that results from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 E. S. Carlin , A. Asensio Ramos , J. Trujillo Bueno

The geometry and morphology of symbiotic stars are conducive to exhibit a variety of scattering phenomena. The prominent among them is the Raman scattering of O VI doublet $\lambda \lambda$ 1032,1038 angstrom, which often show strongly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Arijit Maiti , Mudit K. Srivastava , Vipin Kumar

The sizable linear polarization signals produced by the scattering of anisotropic radiation in the core of the Ca I 4227 $\mathrm{\r{A}}$ line constitute an important observable for probing the inhomogeneous and dynamic plasma of the lower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 J. Jaume Bestard , J. Trujillo Bueno , J. Štěpán , T. del Pino Alemán

Motivated by applications to acoustic imaging, the present work establishes a framework to analyze scattering for the one-dimensional wave, Helmholtz, Schr\"odinger and Riccati equations that allows for coefficients which are more singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-28 Peter C. Gibson

Inspired by the natural piezoelectric effect, we introduce hybrid-wave electromechanical meta-atoms and meta-molecules that consist of coupled electrical and mechanical oscillators with similar resonance frequencies. We propose an…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Leonid Goltcman , Yakir Hadad

We present a formalism that incorporates hydrogen Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) polarization arising from the scattering of radiation in galaxy halos into the intensity mapping approach. Using the halo model, and emission profiles based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Lluís Mas-Ribas , Tzu-Ching Chang

Quantum interference phenomena manifests itself in several ways in the polarized solar spectrum formed due to coherent scattering processes. One such effect arises due to interference between the fine structure (J) states giving rise to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 H. N. Smitha , K. Sowmya , K. N. Nagendra , M. Sampoorna , J. O. Stenflo

We explore the total cross section of ground state polar molecules in an electric field at various energies, focusing on RbCs and RbK. An external electric field polarizes the molecules and induces strong dipolar interactions leading to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Ticknor

Complex systems exhibit rich equilibrium states, yet the universal principles governing these systems remain unrevealed, motivating the search for novel experimental platforms. Random fiber lasers (RFLs), which generate partially-coherent…

Aims. The main goal of this paper is to present an accurate and efficient numerical strategy for solving the radiative transfer problem for polarised radiation in strong resonance lines forming out of local thermodynamic equilibrium, taking…

The polarization properties of the elastic electron scattering on H-like ions are investigated within the framework of the relativistic QED theory. The polarization properties are determined by a combination of relativistic effects and spin…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 D. M. Vasileva , K. N. Lyashchenko , A. B. Voitkiv , D. Yu , O. Yu. Andreev

The spectral properties of a multilevel atomic system interacting with multiple electromagnetic fields, a modified inverted-Y system, have been theoretically investigated. In this study, a numerical matrix propagation method has been…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Charu Mishra , A. Chakraborty , S. R. Mishra

The Ly-alpha line of He II at 304 \AA\ is one of the spectral lines of choice for EUV channels of narrow-band imagers on board space telescopes, which provide spectacular intensity images of the outer solar atmosphere. Since the magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Javier Trujillo Bueno , Jiri Stepan , Luca Belluzzi

A theory of electronic Raman scattering in the presence of several energy bands crossing the Fermi surface is developed. The contributions to the light scattering cross section are calculated for each band and it is shown that the cross…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 T. P. Devereaux , A. Virosztek , A. Zawadowski