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In low energy atom-surface scattering, it is possible for the atom to be reflected in a region of attractive potential with no classical turning point. This phenomenon has come to be known as quantum reflection and it can reduce the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 A. L. Harris

Electron-atom collisions in warm dense plasmas are crucial for astrophysics and controlled fusion research, where calculating short-range scattering matrices under screening plasma potentials is essential. While electron-neutral atom…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Chao Wu , Wen Hao Xia , Yong Wu , Jun Yan , Ming Li , Jian Guo Wang , Xiang Gao

We present a generic transfer matrix approach for the description of the interaction of atoms possessing multiple ground state and excited state sublevels with light fields. This model allows us to treat multi-level atoms as classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-24 André Xuereb , Peter Domokos , Peter Horak , Tim Freegarde

We propose a novel method for analysis of experimental data obtained at relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. The method, based on the ideas of Random Matrix Theory, is applied to detect systematic errors that occur at measurements of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 E. I. Shahaliev , R. G. Nazmitdinov , A. A. Kuznetsov , M. K. Suleymanov , O. V. Teryaev

We describe a method for obtaining the scattering matrix for nuclear or chemical reactions on a finite lattice. Aside from the preparation of the initial and final states as wave packets, the only other operation required is unitary time…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Evan Rule , Ionel Stetcu

We present a review of scattering models that can be used to describe the low-energy behavior of identical bosonic atoms. In the simplest models, the only degrees of freedom are atoms in the same spin state. More elaborate models have other…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric Braaten , Masaoki Kusunoki , Dongqing Zhang

The problem of electron-proton scattering is handed over both the elastic and inelastic scattering. Two models are presented in this sense. The first, depends on the multi photon exchange ladder diagram, where the transition matrix is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. T. Hussein , R. Elmualed , N. M. Hassan

We investigate theoretically light scattering of photons by ultracold atoms in an optical lattice in the linear regime. A full quantum theory for the atom-photon interactions is developed as a function of the atomic state in the lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Stefan Rist , Chiara Menotti , Giovanna Morigi

We report on experiments investigating the collisional properties of atoms at ultralow collision energies using an all-optical atom collider. By using a pair of optical tweezers, we can manipulate two ultracold atom clouds and collide them…

UKRmol+ is a new implementation of the UK R-matrix electron-molecule scattering code. Key features of the implementation are the use of quantum chemistry codes such as Molpro to provide target molecular orbitals; the optional use of mixed…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Zdeněk Mašín , Jakub Benda , Jimena D. Gorfinkiel , Alex G. Harvey , Jonathan Tennyson

An efficient approach for the simulation of ion scattering from solids is proposed. For every encountered atom, we take multiple samples of its thermal displacements among those which result in scattering with high probability to finally…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-18 V. A. Khodyrev , R. Andrzejewski , A. Rivera , D. O. Boerma , J. E. Prieto

A method for solving few-body scattering equations is proposed and examined. The solution of the scattering equations at complex energies is analytically continued to get scattering T-matrix with real positive energy. Numerical examples…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Kamada , Y. Koike , W. Gloeckle

The process of the elastic scattering of photons on atoms, known as the Rayleigh scattering, is investigated. Expressing the scattering observables in terms of the electric and magnetic complex scattering amplitudes, we work over the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 A. V. Volotka , A. Surzhykov , S. Fritzsche

The multiple scattering method T-matrix (MSTMM) can be used to solve the electromagnetic response of systems consisting of many compact scatterers, retaining a good level of accuracy while using relatively few degrees of freedom, largely…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-16 Marek Nečada , Päivi Törmä

Engineered ultracold atomic systems are a valuable platform for fundamental quantum mechanics studies and the development of quantum technologies. At near zero absolute temperature, atoms exhibit macroscopic phase coherence and collective…

The real-space multiple-scattering (RSMS) approach is applied to model non-resonant inelastic scattering from deep core electron levels over a broad energy spectrum. This approach is applicable to aperiodic or periodic systems alike and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. A. Soininen , A. L. Ankudinov , J. J. Rehr

We construct simple analytic models of the $S$-matrix, accounting for both scattering resonances and smooth background contributions for collisions that occur below the s-wave threshold. Such models are important for studying…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 S. G. Bhongale , S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans , Ivan H. Deutsch

Physics based emulators offer a fast and reliable replacement for an exact solution of the scattering problem in nuclear physics. Previous work developed a reduced-basis emulator for single-channel elastic scattering using an optical…

The computation of light scattering by the superposition T-matrix scheme has been so far restricted to systems made of particles that are either sparsely distributed or of near-spherical shape. In this work, we extend the range of…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-20 Dominik Theobald , Amos Egel , Guillaume Gomard , Uli Lemmer

Simulating real-time evolution in theories of fundamental interactions represents one of the central challenges in contemporary theoretical physics. Cold-atom platforms stand as promising candidates to realize quantum simulations of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-11 Federica Maria Surace , Alessio Lerose