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Two-dimensional materials are a class of atomically thin materials with assorted electronic and quantum properties. Accurate identification of layer thickness, especially for a single monolayer, is crucial for their characterization. This…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-25 Polina A. Leger , Aditya Ramesh , Talianna Ulloa , Yingying Wu

Scattering of light in complex media scrambles optical wavefronts and breaks the principles of conventional imaging methods. For decades, researchers have endeavored to conquer the problem by inventing approaches such as adaptive optics,…

A wave-packet time evolution method, based on the split-operator technique, is developed to investigate the scattering of quasi-particles at a normal-superconductor interface of arbitrary profile and shape. As a practical application, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-18 F. J. A. Linard , V. N. Moura , L. Covaci , M. V. Milošević , A. Chaves

We introduce theoretical methods for describing the optical response of two-dimensional (2D) materials patterned at the nanoscale into both arrays of ribbons along a planar surface and spherical particles. Fourier-Floquet decompositions of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Christian Nicolaisen Hansen , Line Jelver , Christos Tserkezis

Optical rogue waves are demonstrated in the far-field scattered radiation from photonic arrays designed according to the aperiodic distributions of prime elements in complex quadratic fields. Specifically, by studying light diffraction from…

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals are attracting growing interest in various research fields such as engineering, physics, chemistry, pharmacy and biology owing to their low dimensionality and dramatic change of properties compared to the bulk…

This paper is concerned with the inverse time-harmonic elastic scattering problem of recovering unbounded rough surfaces in two dimensions. We assume that elastic plane waves with different directions are incident onto a rigid rough surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-09 Guanghui Hu , Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Particle beam scattering is a conventional technique for detecting the nature of matter. We studied the scattering problem of a cluster connected to multiple leads. We established the connection between the eigenstate of the topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 H. S. Xu , K. L. Zhang , L. Jin , Z. Song

We investigate the propagation of electrons in a circular quantum dot of monolayer Molybdenium disulfide MoS_2, subjected to an electric potential. Using the continuum model, we present analytical expressions for the eigenstates, scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Abdelhadi Belouad , Abdellatif Kamal , Rachid Houça , El Bouâzzaoui Choubabi , Mohammed El Bouziani

Optical properties of nonmagnetic structures that support artificial optically-induced magnetic responses have recently attracted surging interest. Here we conduct symmetry-dictated investigations into scattering properties of nonmagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-02 Qingdong Yang , Weijin Chen , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

The polarization of the light scattered by an optically dense, random solution of dielectric nanoparticles shows peculiar properties when the scatterers exhibit strong electric and magnetic polarizabilities. While the distribution of the…

Theory predicts that two-dimensional (2D) materials may only exist in the presence of out-ofplane deformations on atomic length scales, frequently referred to as ripples. While such ripples can be detected via electron microscopy, their…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Omur E. Dagdeviren , Ogulcan Acikgoz , Peter Grutter , Mehmet Z. Baykara

Incoherent surface scattering yields a statistical description of the surface, due to the ensemble averaging over many independently sampled volumes. Depending on the state of the surface and direction of the scattering vector relative to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Darren Dale , Aaron Fleet , Y. Suzuki , J. D. Brock

We experimentally observe the spatial intensity statistics of light transmitted through three-dimensional isotropic scattering media. The intensity distributions measured through layers consisting of zinc oxide nanoparticles differ…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-12-23 Tom Strudley , Duygu Akbulut , Willem L. Vos , Ad Lagendijk , Allard P. Mosk , Otto L. Muskens

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jun Lai , Motoki Kobayashi , Leslie Greengard

Strain engineering is widely used in material science to tune the (opto-)electronic properties of materials and enhance the performance of devices. Two-dimensional atomic crystals are a versatile playground to study the influence of strain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Lukas Mennel , Marco M. Furchi , Stefan Wachter , Matthias Paur , Dmitry K. Polyushkin , Thomas Mueller

Unlike conventional two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor superlattices, moir\'{e} patterns in 2D materials are flexible and their electronic, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties depend on their topography. Within a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Alexandre Artaud , Nicolas Rougemaille , Sergio Vlaic , Vincent T. Renard , Nicolae Atodiresei , Johann Coraux

This work studies scattering-induced elastic wave attenuation and phase velocity variation in 3D untextured cubic polycrystals with statistically equiaxed grains using the theoretical second-order approximation (SOA) and Born approximation…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-02-17 Ming Huang , Peter Huthwaite , Stanislav I. Rokhlin , Michael J. S. Lowe

The elastic scattering of twisted electrons by diatomic molecules is studied within the framework of the non-relativistic first Born approximation. In this process, the coherent interaction of incident electrons with two molecular centers…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 A. V. Maiorova , S. Fritzsche , R. A. Mueller , A. Surzhykov

Consider the two-dimensional inverse elastic wave scattering by an infinite rough surface with a Dirichlet boundary condition. A non-interative sampling technique is proposed for detecting the rough surface by taking elastic wave…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Tielei Zhu , Jiaqing Yang