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A non-unitary version of quantum scattering is studied via an exactly solvable toy model. The model is merely asymptotically local since the smooth path of the coordinate is admitted complex in the non-asymptotic domain. At any real…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Miloslav Znojil

We develop a dynamical formulation of one-dimensional scattering theory where the reflection and transmission amplitudes for a general, possibly complex and energy-dependent, scattering potential are given as solutions of a set of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ali Mostafazadeh

Scattering of light from an anisotropic source produces linear polarization in spectral lines and the continuum. In the outer layers of a stellar atmosphere the anisotropy of the radiation field is typically dominated by the radiation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Rafael Manso Sainz , Javier Trujillo Bueno

We combine theories of scattering for linearized water waves and flexural waves in thin plates to characterize and achieve control of water wave scattering using floating plates. This requires manipulating a sixth-order partial differential…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Mohamed Farhat , Pai-Yen Chen , Hakan Bagci , Khaled Salama , Sebastien Guenneau

We derive a formalism to describe the scattering of polarized radiation over the full spectral range encompassed by atomic transitions belonging to the same spectral series (e.g., the H I Lyman and Balmer series, the UV multiplets of Fe I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 R. Casini , R. Manso Sainz , T. del Pino Aleman

A simple formalism for exploring quantum scattering and possible bound states in an arbitrary symmetric and localized potential in a unified way is presented. The symmetric square barrier and well potentials are used for illustrating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-14 A. S. de Castro

The scattering of electromagnetic radiation by the particle gyrating in an external magnetic field is considered. Particular attention is paid to the low-frequency case, when the frequencies of incident radiation are much less than the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

In the present work a general frame for the scattering theory of local, relativistic dipole quantum fields is presented and some models of interacting dipole fields are considered, i.e. local, relativistic quantum fields with indefinite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Gottschalk

Two different versions of an optical theorem for a scattering body embedded inside a lossy background medium are derived in this paper. The corresponding fundamental upper bounds on absorption are then obtained in closed form by elementary…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yevhen Ivanenko , Mats Gustafsson , Sven Nordebo

Robust topological edge modes may evolve into complex-frequency modes when a physical system becomes non-Hermitian. We show that, while having negligible forward optical extinction cross section, a conjugate pair of such complex topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-02 C. W. Ling , Ka Hei Choi , T. C. Mok , Z. Q. Zhang , Kin Hung Fung

Interaction of waves with point and line defects are usually described by $\delta$-function potentials supported on points or lines. In two dimensions, the scattering problem for a finite collection of point defects or parallel line defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Hai V. Bui , Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh

Methods to increase the light scattered from small particles can help improve the sensitivity of many sensing techniques. Here, we investigate the role multiple scattering plays in perturbing the scattered signal when a particle is added to…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-03 Joel Berk , Matthew R. Foreman

Scattering wave systems that are periodically modulated in time offer many new degrees of freedom to control waves both in spatial and frequency domains. Such systems, albeit linear, do not conserve frequency and require the adaptation of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Matthieu Malléjac , Romain Fleury

Line scattering polarization can be strongly affected by Rayleigh scattering by neutral hydrogen and Thompson scattering by free electrons. Often a continuum depolarization results, but the Doppler redistribution produced by the continuum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 T. del Pino Alemán , R. Manso Sainz , J. Trujillo Bueno

Scattering through a straight two-dimensional quantum waveguide Rx(0,d) with Dirichlet boundary conditions on (-\infty,0)x{y=0} \cup (0,\infty)x{y=d} and Neumann boundary condition on (-infty,0)x{y=d} \cup (0,\infty)x{y=0} is considered…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ph. Briet , J. Dittrich , E. Soccorsi

We discuss scattering from pairs of isospectral quantum graphs constructed using the method described in [1, 2]. It was shown in [3] that scattering matrices of such graphs have the same spectrum and polar structure, provided that infinite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Ram Band , Adam Sawicki , Uzy Smilansky

It is shown that a relativistic multiple scattering theory for hadron-nucleus scattering can be consistently formulated in four-dimensions in the context of meson exchange. We give a multiple scattering series for the optical potential and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Khin Maung Maung , John W. Norbury , Trina Coleman

Utilizing the scales theory of electromagnetic theory, the anisotropic dielectric material is reconstructed into an isotropic medium. The analytic expressions of scattering field and the scattering breadth for an anisotropic material…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Y-L Li , J Li

We present a study of sound wave propagation in a time dependent random medium and an application to imaging. The medium is modeled by small temporal and spatial random fluctuations in the wave speed and density, and it moves due to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-19 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

We consider deterministic self-propelled particles with anti-alignment interactions. An asymptotically exact kinetic theory for particle scattering at low densities is constructed by a non-local closure of the BBGKY-hierarchy, involving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Thomas Ihle , Rüdiger Kürsten , Benjamin Lindner