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Advances in micro-technology of the last years have made it possible to carry optics textbooks experiments over to atomic and molecular beams, such as diffraction by a double slit or transmission grating. The usual wave-optical approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt , Thorsten Koehler

Typically one expects that when a heavy particle collides with a surface, the scattered angular distribution will follow classical mechanics. The heavy mass assures that the de Broglie wavelength of the incident particle in the direction of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jeremy M. Moix , Eli Pollak

We develop and demonstrate methods for simulating the scattering of particle wave packets in the interacting Thirring model on digital quantum computers, with hardware implementations on up to 80 qubits. We identify low-entanglement time…

We calculate the dispersive force between a ground state atom and a non planar surface. We present explicit results for a corrugated surface, derived from the scattering approach at first order in the corrugation amplitude. A variety of…

By a computer simulation approach we study the scattering of $p$- or $s$-polarized light from a two-dimensional, randomly rough, perfectly conducting surface. The pair of coupled inhomogeneous integral equations for two independent…

Optics · Physics 2010-05-04 Ingve Simonsen , Alexei A. Maradudin , Tamara A. Leskova

This paper investigates quantum diffusion of matter waves in two-dimensional random potentials, focussing on expanding Bose-Einstein condensates in spatially correlated optical speckle potentials. Special care is taken to describe the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Miniatura , R. C. Kuhn , D. Delande , C. A. Mueller

Quantum computing has shown great potential in various quantum chemical applications such as drug discovery, material design, and catalyst optimization. Although significant progress has been made in quantum simulation of simple molecules,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Changsu Cao , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan , Han-Shi Hu , Hung Q. Pham , Dingshun Lv

We present a simple method to expedite simulation of quantum wave-packet dynamics by more than a factor of $2$ with the Strang split-operator propagation. Dynamics of quantum wave-packets are often evaluated using the the \emph{Strang}…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 Igal Aharonovich , Avi Pe'er

Surface modes are coupled electromagnetic/electrostatic excitations of free electrons near the vacuum-plasma interface and can be excited on a sufficiently dense plasma half-space. They propagate along the surface plane and decay in either…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Lazar , P. K. Shukla , A. Smolyakov

The Sudden Approximation is applied to invert structural data on randomly corrugated surfaces from inert atom scattering intensities. Several expressions relating experimental observables to surface statistical features are derived. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum computing has attracted considerable attention in recent years because it promises speed-ups that conventional supercomputers cannot offer, at least for some applications. Though existing quantum computers are, in most cases, still…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-05-08 Malte Schade , Cyrill Boesch , Vaclav Hapla , Andreas Fichtner

One-dimensional scattering problem admitting a complex, PT-symmetric short-range potential V(x) is considered. Using a Runge-Kutta-discretized version of Schroedinger equation we derive the formulae for the reflection and transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Miloslav Znojil

An overview of computational methods to describe high-dimensional potential energy surfaces suitable for atomistic simulations is given. Particular emphasis is put on accuracy, computability, transferability and extensibility of the methods…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Oliver T. Unke , Debasish Koner , Sarbani Patra , Silvan Käser , Markus Meuwly

We propose a quantum memory for a single-photon wave packet in a superposition of two different colors, i.e., two different frequency components, using the electromagnetically induced transparency technique in a double-{\Lambda} system. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 D. Viscor , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart , A. Zavatta , G. C. La Rocca , M. Artoni

We present a physically intuitive matrix approach for wave imaging and characterization in scattering media. The experimental proof-of-concept is performed with ultrasonic waves, but this approach can be applied to any field of wave physics…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 William Lambert , Laura A. Cobus , Mathieu Couade , Mathias Fink , Alexandre Aubry

A formalism is introduced for the non-perturbative, purely numerical, solution of the reduced Rayleigh equation for the scattering of light from two-dimensional penetrable rough surfaces. As an example, we apply this formalism to study the…

Optics · Physics 2012-05-03 Tor Nordam , Paul Anton Letnes , Ingve Simonsen

We study two-dimensional wave propagation in materials whose properties vary periodically in one direction only. High order homogenization is carried out to derive a dispersive effective medium approximation. One-dimensional materials with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

Quantum computing provides a novel avenue towards simulating dynamical phenomena, and, in particular, scattering processes relevant for exploring the structure of matter. However, preparing and evolving particle wave packets on a quantum…

In this paper, we use a straightforward numerical method to solve scattering models in one-dimensional lattices based on a tight-binding band structure. We do this by using the wave packet approach to scattering, which presents a more…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-07-06 M. Staelens , F. Marsiglio

We study electromagnetic waves scattering by a 2D photonic crystal made of a stack of diffraction gratings. In case where there are only two propagative modes in the crystal, we derive an explicit expression for the superior (resp.…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Guizal , D. Felbacq , R. Smaali