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Infinitely rising one-dimensional potentials constitute impenetrable barriers which reflect totally any incident wave. However, the scattering by such kind of potentials is not structureless: resonances may occur for certain values of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-27 E. M. Ferreira , J. Sesma

The possibility of non-causal signal propagation is examined for various theories of dense matter. This investigation requires a discussion of definitions of causality, together with interpretations of spacetime position. Specific examples…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. D. Keister , W. N. Polyzou

We formulate a theory of nonrelativistic scattering in one dimension based on the J-matrix method. The scattering potential is assumed to have a finite range such that it is well represented by its matrix elements in a finite subset of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. D. Alhaidari , H. Bahlouli , M. S. Abdelmonem

We obtain general bounds on scattering processes involving charged particles in 1+1 spacetime dimensions. After a general analysis we derive mostly numerical bounds on couplings in theories with $O(N)$ and $U(N)$ global symmetries. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-25 Miguel F. Paulos , Zechuan Zheng

Collective coherent scattering of laser light by an ensemble of polarizable point particles creates long range interactions, whose properties can be tailored by choice of injected laser powers, frequencies and polarizations. We use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stefan Ostermann , Matthias Sonnleitner , Helmut Ritsch

The scattering of relativistic Dirac particles by a Coulomb field $\pm Ze^2/r$ in two dimensions is studied and the scattering amplitude is obtained as a partial wave series. For small $Z$ the series can be summed up approximately to give a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Qiong-gui Lin

Conditions are established for the existence of a scattering length and an effective range in the low-energy expansion of the S-wave phase-shift of a central potential in two and three dimensions. The behavior of the phase-shift as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 N. N. Khuri , Andre Martin , Jean-Marc Richard , Tai Tsun Wu

Scattering of 2 particles of spin 0 and 1/2 is evaluated based on a basis constructed from the momentum and the helicity states (the momentum-helicity basis). This shortly called three-dimensional (3D) technique is a good alternative to the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-12-10 I. Fachruddin , I. Abdulrahman

The scattering of free particles constrained to move on a cylindrically symmetric curved surface is studied. The nontrivial geometry of the space contributes to the scattering cross section through the kinetic as well as a possible scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Ali Mostafazadeh

We develop a geometric scattering theory for a geometrically finite group acting on (a vector bundle over) a symmetric space of negative curvature. In particular, we obtain the meromorphic continuation of Eisenstein series and scattering…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-28 Ulrich Bunke , Martin Olbrich

We study the scattering dynamics of an $n$-component spinor wavefunction in a random environment on a two-dimensional lattice. In the presence of particle-hole symmetry we find diffusion on large scales. The latter is described by a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-07-30 K. Ziegler

We explore wave-mechanical scattering in two spatial dimensions assuming that the corresponding potential is invariant under linear symmetry transforms such as rotations, reflections and coordinate exchange. Usually the asymptotic…

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In this paper we first show that the usual three dimensionality of space, which is taken for granted, results from the spinorial behaviour of Fermions, which constitute the material content of the universe. It is shown that the resulting…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. G. Sidharth

Scattering is a ubiquitous phenomenon which is observed in a variety of physical systems which span a wide range of length scales. The scattering matrix is the key quantity which provides a complete description of the scattering process.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-21 André Nock , Santosh Kumar , Hans-Jürgen Sommers , Thomas Guhr

We compute the geometric phase for a spin-1/2 particle under the presence of a composite environment, composed of an external bath (modeled by an infinite set of harmonic oscillators) and another spin-1/2 particle. We consider both cases:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paula I. Villar , Fernando C. Lombardo

We analyze the scattering sector of the Hamiltonians for both gapless and gapped graphene in the presence of a charge impurity using the 2D Dirac equation, which is applicable in the long wavelength limit. We show that for certain range of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-07 Kumar S. Gupta , Andjelo Samsarov , Siddhartha Sen

Multiple scattering methods are widely used to reduce the computational complexity of acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems when waves propagate through media containing many identical inclusions. Historically, this numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Carlos Borges , Leslie Greengard , Michael O'Neil , Manas Rachh

Scattering discussion due to Double Dirac Equation in Quaternionic version of relativistic quantum mechanics has been studied in this paper in details. In such a quantum mechanics Dirac equation in presence vector and scalar potential has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Hassan Hassanabadi , Hadi Sobhani , Won Sang Chung

The simplest Lorentz-nonreciprocal medium has the constitutive relations (${\bf D} =\epso {\bf E} -{\bf \Gamma}\times {\bf H}$ and ${\bf B} =\muo {\bf H} + {\bf \Gamma}\times{\bf E}$). Scattering by a three-dimensional object composed of…