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Planar, disordered assemblies of small particles incorporated in layered media -- sometimes called ``disordered metasurfaces'' in the recent literature -- are becoming widespread in optics and photonics. Their ability to scatter light with…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-08 Kevin Vynck , Armel Pitelet , Louis Bellando , Philippe Lalanne

The new scheme of the energy measurement of the extremely high energy electron beam with the inverse Compton scattering between electrons and microwave photons requires the precise calculation of the interaction cross section of electrons…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Meiyu Si , Shanhong Chen , Yongsheng Huang , Manqi Ruan , Guangyi Tang , Xiaofei Lan , Yuan Chen , Xinchou Lou

Scattering resonances play a crucial role in understanding wave behavior in various physical systems. While significant progress has been made in analyzing resonances in high-contrast and nonlinear media, a general characterization of…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-29 Taoufik Meklachi

Properly modeling and predicting the scattering response of a metasurface is a particularly challenging task. This has been shown to be especially difficult if the metasurface supports both local and nonlocal interactions, in the form of…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-12 Hossein Allahverdizadeh , Karim Achouri

The optical theorem relates the total scattering cross-section of a given structure with its forward scattering, but does not impose any restrictions on other directions. Strong backward-forward asymmetry in scattering could be achieved by…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-11-22 Vitali Kozlov , Dmitry Filonov , Alexander S. Shalin , Ben Z. Steinberg , Pavel Ginzburg

Metasurfaces have emerged as a promising technology for the manipulation of electromagnetic waves within a thin layer. In planar ultrathin metasurfaces, there exist rigorous narrowband design methods, based on the equivalent surface…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Ashif A. Fathnan , Andreas E. Olk , David A. Powell

In this chapter, we describe scattering resonance phenomena in general, and focus on the mechanism of Feshbach resonances, for which a multi-channel treatment is required. We derive the dependence of the scattering phase shift on magnetic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-23 S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans

In our earlier work [13], we introduced a novel quasi-Minnaert resonance for three-dimensional elastic wave scattering in the sub-wavelength regime. Therein, we provided a rigorous analysis of the boundary localization and surface resonance…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-28 Huaian Diao , Kaixin Lu , Ruixiang Tang , Weisheng Zhou

Manipulating broadband fields in scattering media is a modern challenge across photonics and other wave domains. Recent studies have shown that complex propagation in scattering media can be harnessed to manipulate broadband light wave…

In ordinary circumstances the highest frequency present in a wave is the highest frequency in its Fourier decomposition. It is however possible for there to be a spatial or temporal region of the wave which locally oscillates at a still…

High-precision measurements implemented by means of light is desired in all fields of science. However, light is a wave and Rayleigh criterion gives us a diffraction limitation in classical optics which restricts to get arbitrary high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-26 Ruifeng Liu , Pei Zhang , Yu Zhou , Hong Gao , Fuli Li

Excited hadrons are seen as resonances in the scattering of lighter stable hadrons like $\pi$, $K$ and $\eta$. Many decay into multiple final states necessitating coupled-channel analyses. Recently it has become possible to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2016-11-23 David J. Wilson

Scattering from a compound barrier, one composed of a number of distinct non-overlapping sub-barriers, has a number of interesting and subtle mathematical features. If one is scattering classical particles, where the wave aspects of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 Petarpa Boonserm , Matt Visser

Radio waves are imprinted with propagation effects from ionized media through which they pass. Owing to electron density fluctuations, compact sources (pulsars, masers, and compact extragalactic sources) can display a wide variety of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Joseph W. Lazio , J. M. Cordes , A. G. de Bruyn , J. -P. Macquart

Coherent backscattering is a coherence effect in the propagation of waves through disordered media involving two or more scattering events. Here, we report on the observation of coherent backscattering from individual atoms and their mirror…

An atom in open space can be detected by means of resonant absorption and reemission of electromagnetic waves, known as resonance fluorescence, which is a fundamental phenomenon of quantum optics. We report on the observation of scattering…

Transmission through sub-wavelength apertures in perfect metals is expected to be strongly suppressed. However, by structural engineering of the apertures, we numerically demonstrate that the transmission of transverse electric waves…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-12 Sanshui Xiao , Liang Peng , Niels Asger Mortensen

Diffusive Radiation is a new type of radiation predicted to occur in randomly inhomogeneous media due to the multiple scattering of pseudophotons. This theoretical effect is now observed experimentally. The radiation is generated by the…

We present a method based on the scattering $\mathbb{T}$ operator, and conservation of net real and reactive power, to provide physical bounds on any electromagnetic design objective that can be framed as a net radiative emission,…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-12 Sean Molesky , Pengning Chao , Weiliang Jin , Alejandro W. Rodriguez

Diffraction patterns of electrons are believed to resemble those of electromagnetic waves (EMW). I performed a series of experiments invoked to show that the periodicity of peaks in the diffraction diagram of electrons is concerned with the…

General Physics · Physics 2010-02-23 Victor V. Demjanov