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We derive from first principles a one-way radiative transfer equation for the wave intensity resolved over directions (Wigner transform of the wave field) in random media. It is an initial value problem with excitation from a source which…

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A {\it completed} scattering of a particle on a static one-dimensional (1D) potential barrier is a combined quantum process to consist from two elementary sub-processes (transmission and reflection) evolved coherently at all stages of…

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Consider the elastic scattering of an incident wave by a rigid obstacle in three dimensions, which is formulated as an exterior problem for the Navier equation. By constructing a Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) operator and introducing a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Gang Bao , Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

Asymptotic solution to many-body wave scattering problem is given in the case of many small scatterers. The small scatterers can be particles whose physical properties are described by the boundary impedances, or they can be small…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 A. G. Ramm

We apply boundary integral equations for the first time to the two-dimensional scattering of time-harmonic waves from a smooth obstacle embedded in a continuously-graded unbounded medium. In the case we solve the square of the wavenumber…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Alex. H. Barnett , Bradley J. Nelson , J. Matthew Mahoney

The present paper generalizes preceding papers of the author and opens a cycle of works concerning the general posing and solution in analytic form of the quantum-mechanical inverse scattering problem (for a given partial channel) in a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Muzafarov

In a preceding paper we introduced a formalism to study the scattering of low intensity fields from a system of multi-level emitters embedded in a $3$D dielectric medium. Here we show how this photon-scattering relation can be used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 Sumanta Das , Vincent E. Elfving , Florentin Reiter , Anders S. Sørensen

It is shown that the Stone-von Neumann theorem is inapplicable to scattering a quantum nonrelativistic particle on a one-dimensional "short-range" potential barrier, since the unboundedness of the position operator plays here a crucial…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 N. L. Chuprikov

In this paper, we consider the problem of mechanical wave scattering from a spatially finite system into an infinite surrounding environment. The goal is to illuminate why the scattering spectrum undergoes peaks and dips (resonances) at…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Hossein Khodavirdi , Amir Ashkan Mokhtari , Ankit Srivastava

Laser photons carrying non-zero orbital angular momentum are known and exploited during the last twenty years. Recently it has been demonstrated experimentally that such (twisted) electrons can be produced and even focused to a subnanometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 D. V. Karlovets , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

This article studies the rational solutions of the Half-Wave Maps equation (HWM) in the non-singular spectrum case. We first provide characterizations to what we call \emph{scattering behavior}, and show that they imply scattering in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Gaspard Ohlmann

A universal numerical method is developed for the investigation of magnetic neutron scattering. By applying the pseudospectral-time-domain (PSTD) algorithm to the spinor version of the Schr\"odinger equation, the evolution of the spin-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Kun Chen

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

This paper is concerned with the problem of scattering of time-harmonic acoustic waves from an impenetrable obstacle in a piecewise homogeneous medium. The well-posedness of the direct problem is established, employing the integral equation…

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We develop a microscopic theory of the scattering, transmission, and sticking of 4He atoms impinging on a superfluid 4He slab at near normal incidence, and inelastic neutron scattering from the slab. The theory includes coupling between…

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Scattering of a tightly focused electron beam by an atom forms one of the bases of modern electron microscopy. A fundamental symmetry breaking occurs when the target atom is displaced from the beam center. This displacement results in a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Yuya Morimoto , Peter Hommelhoff , Lars Bojer Madsen

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

The scattering of 1D matter wave bright solitons on attractive potentials enables one to populate bound states, a feature impossible with noninteracting wave packets. Compared to noninteracting states, the populated states are renormalized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-09-13 F. Damon , B. Georgeot , D. Guéry-Odelin

We consider the scattering of charged particles on particular electromagnetic fields which have properties analogous to gravitational horizons. Classically, particles become causally excluded from regions of spacetime beyond a null surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Anton Ilderton , William Lindved

For the scattering of scalar waves in two and three dimensions and electromagnetic waves in three dimensions, we identify a condition on the scattering interaction under which the $N$-th order Born approximation gives the exact solution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh