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In this work we present a method for generating random matrices describing electromagnetic scattering from disordered media containing dielectric particles with prescribed single particle scattering characteristics. Resulting scattering…

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The rotational dynamics of particles subject to external illumination is found to produce light amplification and inelastic scattering at high rotation velocities. Light emission at frequencies shifted with respect to the incident light by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Ana Asenjo-Garcia , Alejandro Manjavacas , F. Javier García de Abajo

We study the optical properties of gold nanoparticles coated with a nematic liquid crystal whose director field is distributed around the nanoparticle according to the anchoring conditions at the surface of the nanoparticle. The…

We study the scattering properties of optical dipole-mode vector solitons recently predicted theoretically and generated in a laboratory. We demonstrate that such a radially asymmetric composite self-trapped state resembles ``a molecule of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Garcia-Ripoll , V. M. Perez-Garcia , W. Krolikowski , Y. S. Kivshar

A scattering polarizer is created by subjecting a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) film to tensile strain. The optomechanical properties of the film are investigated by simultaneously measuring the stress-strain and polarization…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Ichiro Amimori , Nikolai V. Priezjev , Robert A. Pelcovits , Gregory P. Crawford

Scattering of electrons from chiral spin textures such as the skyrmions is an emerging research area due to its richness in topological quantum transport, which is significant for spintronic devices. We study the dynamical process of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Hareram Swain , Arijit Mandal , S. Satpathy , B. R. K. Nanda

We consider electron-atom scattering in a circularly polarized laser field at sufficiently high electron energies, permitting to describe the scattering process by the first order Born approximation. Assuming the radiation field has…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-07 Aurelia Cionga , Fritz Ehlotzky , Gabriela Zloh

Biological molecules are characterized by an intrinsic asymmetry known as homochirality. The result is optical activity of biological materials and circular polarization in the light scattered by microorganisms, cells of living organisms,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-13 Lev Nagdimunov , Ludmilla Kolokolova , Daniel Mackowski

We calculate the inelastic light scattering from X-rays, which allows the photon to transfer both energy and momentum to the strongly correlated charge excitations. We find that the charge transfer peak and the low energy peak both broaden…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 T. P. Devereaux , G. E. D. McCormack , J. K. Freericks

Using the electrostatic approximation, we analyze electromagnetic fields scattered by sharp conical metal tips, which are illuminated with light polarized along the tip axis. We establish scaling relations for the scattered field amplitude…

Light scattering techniques are widely used in many fields of condensed and sof t matter physics. Usually these methods are based on the study of the scattered light in the far field. Recently, a new family of near field detection schemes…

Surface Quasi-Elastic Light Scattering (SQELS) is an application of dynamic light scattering to measure the dynamics of the thermal roughness of liquid surfaces. An analysis of the spectrum of thermal fluctuations provides information on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Pietro Cicuta , Ian Hopkinson

Circular dichroism spectroscopy is an essential technique for understanding molecular structure and magnetic materials, but spatial resolution is limited by the wavelength of light, and sensitivity sufficient for single-molecule…

We study theoretically the polarization state of light in multiple scattering media in the limit of weak gradients in refractive index. Linearly polarized photons are randomly rotated due to the Berry phase associated with the scattering…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-07 A. C. Maggs , V. Rossetto

Light interacts differently with left and right handed three dimensional chiral objects, like helices, and this leads to the phenomenon known as optical activity. Here, by applying a polarization tomography, we show experimentally, for the…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Drezet , C. Genet , J. -Y. Laluet , T. W. Ebbesen

We demonstrate that an effect phenomenologically analogous to circular dichroism can arise even for dielectric and isotropic chiral spherical particles. By analyzing the polarimetry of light scattered from a chiral, lossless microsphere…

Utilizing the scales theory of electromagnetic theory, the anisotropic dielectric material is reconstructed into an isotropic medium. The analytic expressions of scattering field and the scattering breadth for an anisotropic material…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Y-L Li , J Li

A liquid crystal optical device made of an optically anisotropic heterostructure is considered. The device consists of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer sandwiched by two phase-shifting anisotropic layers of a nematic liquid crystal…

Investigation of magnetooptical characteristics of ferrofluids is an important task aimed at the development of novel optoelectronic systems. This article reports on the results obtained in the experimental studies of the factors that…