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Lasers with wavelengths of the order of the atomic size are becoming available. We explore the behavior of light-matter interactions in this emergent field by considering the atomic Kapitza-Dirac effect. We derive the diffraction patterns,…

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The present work theoretically investigates the probability of generation of entangled electron-photon pair in high-energy Compton scattering of unpolarized electrons and photons due to scattering-channel-exchange mechanism. The study…

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Spin distribution in the diffraction pattern of two-dimensional electron gas by a split gate and a quantum point contact is computed in the presence of the spin-orbit coupling. After diffracted, the component of spin perpendicular to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cheng-Ju Lin , Chyh-Hong Chern

We present a theoretical study of elastic spin-dependent electron scattering caused by a charged impurity in the vicinity of a two-dimensional electron gas. We find that the symmetry properties of the spin-dependent differential scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-01-05 A. Pályi , J. Cserti

We investigate the effects of spin-momentum locking on the interference and diffraction patterns due to a double- or single-slit in an electronic \emph{Gedankenexperiment}. We show that the inclusion of the spin-degree-of-freedom, when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-15 D. Bercioux , T. van den Berg , D. Ferraro , J. Rech , T. Jonckheere , T. Martin

Chirality-induced spin selectivity has been reported in many experiments, but a generally accepted theoretical explanation has not yet been proposed. Here, we introduce a simple model system of a straight cylindrical free-electron wire,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Jan M. van Ruitenbeek , Richard Korytár , Ferdinand Evers

Simultaneous manipulation of charge and spin density distributions in materials is the key element required in spintronics applications. Here we study the formation of coupled spin and charge densities arising in scattering of electrons by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 S. Wolski , V. K. Dugaev , E. Ya. Sherman

Relaxation of a non-equilibrium state in a disordered metal with a spin-dependent electron energy distribution is considered. The collision integral due to the electron-electron interaction is computed within the approximation of a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. V. Dimitrova , V. E. Kravtsov

Photon-induced Near-field Electron Microscopy (PINEM) effect has revealed the quantum interaction between free electrons and optical near filed, which demonstrated plenty of novel phenomena of manipulating free electron wave packet and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hongteng Lin , Xiaotong Xiong , Junjie Liu , Yidong Huang , Fang Liu

We show that spin-flip probabilities emerge in the relativistic regime for scalar potentials, absent in the standard Dirac representation. We examine 1D scattering for the Dirac equation employing an alternate matrix representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-12 Muhammad Adeel Ajaib

Spin-orbit interaction of light can lead to the so-called optical mirages, i.e. a perceived displacement in the position of a particle due to the spiraling structure of the scattered light. In electric dipoles, the maximum displacement is…

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

A potential for propagation of a wave in two dimensions is constructed from a random superposition of plane waves around all propagation angles. Surprisingly, despite the lack of periodic structure, sharp Bragg diffraction of the wave is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-26 Donghwan Kim , Eric J. Heller

We study the electron scatter from the freely movable spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ particle in the presence of a linearly polarized laser field in the first Born approximation. The dressed state of electrons is described by a time-dependent wave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Ai-Hua Liu , Shu-Min Li

The time-dependent Bragg diffraction by multilayer gratings working by reflection or by transmission is investigated. The study is performed by generalizing the time-dependent coupled-wave theory previously developed for one-dimensional…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-26 Jean-Michel André , Philippe Jonnard

We investigate the coupling of the spin angular momentum of light beams with elliptical polarization to the spin degree of freedom of free electrons. It is shown that this coupling, which is of similar origin as the well-known spin-orbit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Heiko Bauke , Sven Ahrens , Rainer Grobe

We study the polarization characteristics of x-ray photons scattered by hydrogenic atoms, based on the Dirac equation and second-order perturbation theory. The relativistic states used in calculations are obtained using the finite basis set…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 Laleh Safari , Jose Paulo Santos , Pedro Amaro , Filippo Fratini

The electron-positron pair production in the collision of two intense gamma lasers is studied beyond the dipole approximation. The complete electron/positron momentum spectrum obtained by three-dimensional computation shows directly the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Zhaoyang Peng , Huayu Hu , Jianmin Yuan

We experimentally demonstrate coherent light scattering from an atomic Mott insulator in a two-dimensional lattice. The far-field diffraction pattern of small clouds of a few hundred atoms was imaged while simultaneously laser cooling the…

The emission of a pair of entangled photons by an electron in an intense laser field can be described by two-photon transitions of laser-dressed, relativistic Dirac--Volkov states. In the limit of a small laser field intensity, the…

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