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The momentum transfer between the normal components to an index direction in the collision of an atom with a periodic surface is investigated. For fast atoms with grazing angle of incidence there is an interval of azimuthal angles around…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-05 Antonia Ruiz , Jose P. Palao , Eric J. Heller

An interaction of a double layer electron system realized in an AlGaAs-GaAs-AlGaAs heterostructure with nonuniform elastic modes localized in the GaAs layer is considered. The dependence of the coupling constant on the ratio between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. V. Fil

Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Caroline Jane Spindel , Edward Knightly

When a plasma sheath forms next to a dielectric wall, material properties determine electron absorption and reflection from the surface, impacting the sheath formation and structure. The low energy regime of this interaction is often not…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Kolter Bradshaw , Petr Cagas , Ammar Hakim , Bhuvana Srinivasan

Atom reflection is studied in the presence of a non-Abelian vector potential proportional to a spin-1/2 operator. The potential is produced by a relatively simple laser configuration for atoms with a tripod level scheme. We show that the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-27 Gediminas Juzeliunas , Julius Ruseckas , Andreas Jacob , Luis Santos , Patrik Ohberg

The theory of the thin vapor layers linear optical properties is presented for the case of specular reflection of atoms colliding with the walls. The effects of light absorption and the shift in the resonance frequency are taken into…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-27 A. V. Ermolaev , T. A. Vartanyan

The diffraction of fast atoms at crystal surfaces is ideal for a detailed investigation of the surface electronic density. However, instead of sharp diffraction spots, most experiments show elongated streaks characteristic of inelastic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Philippe Roncin , Maxime Debiossac

Grazing incidence fast atom diffraction has mainly been investigated with helium atoms, considered as the best possible choice for surface analysis. This article presents experimental diffraction profiles recorded with neon projectile,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-24 Maxime Debiossac , Peng Pan , Philippe Roncin

We study the quantum tunnelling of a very complex object of which only part is coupled to an external potential ( the potential barrier ). We treat this problem as the tunnelling of a particle (part of the system affected by the potential)…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 A. H. Castro Neto , A. O. Caldeira

Electron elastic-scattering phase shifts and cross sections along with the differential and total cross sections and polarization of low-frequency bremsstrahlung upon low-energy electron collision with endohedral fullerenes $A$@C$_{60}$ are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 V. K. Dolmatov , C. Bayens , M. B. Cooper , M. E. Hunter

We study cold heteronuclear atom ion collisions by immersing a trapped single ion into an ultracold atomic cloud. Using ultracold atoms as reaction targets, our measurement is sensitive to elastic collisions with extremely small energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 Christoph Zipkes , Stefan Palzer , Lothar Ratschbacher , Carlo Sias , Michael Köhl

We consider a quantum theory of elastic light scattering from macroscopic atomic sample existing in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phase. Following to the second quantized formalism we introduce a set of coupled and closed diagram…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Victoria Ezhova , Leonid Gerasimov , Dmitriy Kupriyanov

We show that quantum entanglement between causally separated regions of a nucleon in antineutrino-nucleon scattering manifests itself as a thermal component in the resulting pion momentum distribution. For antineutrino scattering coherently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-20 G. Iskander , J. Pan , M. Tyler , C. Weber , O. K. Baker

In this paper we expand our previous investigation of a quantum particle subject to the action of a random potential plus a fixed harmonic potential at a finite temperature T. In the classical limit the system reduces to a well-known…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yadin Y. Goldschmidt

We present a thermodynamic description of ultracold gases with dipolar interactions which properly accounts for the long-range nature and broken rotation invariance of the interactions. It involves an additional thermodynamic field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-16 Wilhelm Zwerger

Nonadiabatic coupling between electrons and molecular motion at metal surfaces leads to energy dissipation and dynamical steering effects during chemical surface dynamics. We present a theoretical approach to the scattering of molecules…

We argue that, because of the quantum-entanglement, the local physics of the strongly-correlated materials at zero temperature is described in very good approximation by a simple generalized Gibbs distribution, which depends on a relatively…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-22 Nicola Lanatà , Hugo U. R. Strand , Yongxin Yao , Gabriel Kotliar

The Fraunhofer diffraction of quantum particles from materials with sharp electron-density edges or symmetric bond structures is ubiquitous. In contrast, diffraction from atoms with characteristic asymptotically-diffused electron…

The soft diffraction phenomena in the elastic proton-proton scattering are reviewed from the viewpoint of experiments at the LHC (TOTEM and ATLAS collaboration). In the framework of the High Energy Generalized Structure (HEGS) model the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-17 O. V. Selyugin

It was recently shown [Y. Suzuki, L. Lacombe, K. Watanabe, and N. T. Maitra, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 263401 (2017)] that peak and valley structures in the exact exchange-correlation potential of time-dependent density functional theory are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Lionel Lacombe , Yasumitsu Suzuki , Kazuyuki Watanabe , Neepa T. Maitra