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In scattering theory, the Wigner-Smith time delay, calculated through a phaseshift derivative or its multichannel generalization, has been demonstrated to measure the amount of delay or advance experienced by colliding particles during…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Karim I. Elghazawy , Chris H. Greene

Although many physical arguments account for using a modified definition of time delay in multichannel-type scattering processes, one can hardly find rigorous results on that issue in the literature. We try to fill in this gap by showing,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Rafael Tiedra de Aldecoa

Statistical properties of Wigner delay times and the effect of evanescent modes on the deterministic scattering of an electron matter wave from a classically chaotic 2-d electron waveguide are studied for the case of 2, 6, and 16…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. B. Akguc , L. E. Reichl

By using the supersymmetry method we derive an explicit expression for the parametric correlation function of densities of eigenphases $\theta_a$ of the S-matrix in a chaotic quantum system with broken time-reversal symmetry coupled to…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yan V. Fyodorov , H. -J. Sommers

Elastic scattering of a wave can be quantified by a shift in the phase with respect to the incoming wave phase. A qualitative measure of the time during which the effect occurs is given by the Wigner time delay. The tunneling time in turn…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Benjamin Schwager , Lars Meschede , Jamal Berakdar

This is a review of the dynamics of wave propagation through a disordered N-mode waveguide in the localized regime. The basic quantities considered are the Wigner-Smith and single-mode delay times, plus the time-dependent power spectrum of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-08 C. W. J. Beenakker

Resonant scattering of weak coherent laser pulses on a single two-level system (TLS) realized in a semiconductor quantum dot is investigated with respect to a time delay between incoming and scattered light. This type of time delay was…

The scattering matrix $S$ linearly relates the vector of incoming waves to outgoing wave excitations, and contains an enormous amount of information about the scattering system and its connections to the scattering channels. Time delay is…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-02 Isabella L. Giovannelli , Steven M. Anlage

A dispersive delay structure (DDS) is a device that creates a specified group delay function over frequency bandwidth. In this paper, the idea of trapping the electromagnetic waves in a feedback loop is proposed to achieve higher group…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-02 Hossein Nazemi-Rafi , Masoud Movahhedi

We present a semiclassical calculation, based on classical action correlations implemented by means of a matrix integral, of all moments of the Wigner--Smith time delay matrix, $Q$, in the context of quantum scattering through systems with…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-26 Marcel Novaes

Recent developments in the semiclassical analysis of chaotic systems are reviewed and illustrated for Wigner's time delay in elastic scattering of a point particle from three disks in the plane. The convergence of the cycle expanded…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-22 Bruno Eckhardt

We write explicitly a transformation of the scattering phases reducing the problem of quantum chaotic scattering for systems with M statistically equivalent channels at nonideal coupling to that for ideal coupling. Unfolding the phases by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-12-18 Dmitry V. Savin , Yan V. Fyodorov , Hans-Juergen Sommers

We consider the scattering by a one-dimensional random potential and derive the probability distribution of the corresponding Wigner time delay. It is shown that the limiting distribution is the same for two different models and coincides…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 Alain Comtet , Christophe Texier

Assuming the validity of random matrices for describing the statistics of a closed chaotic quantum system, we study analytically some statistical properties of the S-matrix characterizing scattering in its open counterpart. In the first…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 Yan. V. Fyodorov , H. -J. Sommers

This is the first of two subsequent publications where the probability distribution of delay-times in scattering of wave packets is discussed. The probability distribution is expressed in terms of the on-shell scattering matrix, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Uzy Smilansky

The Wigner delay time is addressed semiclassically using the Miller's S-matrix expressed in terms of open orbits. This leads to a very appealing expression, in terms of classical paths, for the energy averaged Wigner time delay in chaotic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Caio H. Lewenkopf , Raul O. Vallejos

Real-world dynamical systems with retardation effects are described in general not by a single, precisely defined time delay, but by a range of delay times. An exact mapping onto a set of $N+1$ ordinary differential equations exists when…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Daniel Henrik Nevermann , Claudius Gros

The Eisenbud-Wigner-Smith (EWS) time delay of photoemission depends on the phase term of the matrix element describing the transition. Because of an interference process between partial channels, the photoelectrons acquire a spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mauro Fanciulli , J. Hugo Dil

Space-time varying media enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves, yet most existing studies assume idealized, nondispersive materials and thus fail to capture the intrinsic frequency dispersion of realistic platforms. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 Klaas De Kinder , Christophe Caloz

We investigate the statistical properties of the scattering matrix $S$ describing the electron transport through quasi-one dimensional disordered systems. For weak disorder (metallic regime), the energy dependence of the phase shifts of $S$…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. R. Mucciolo , R. A. Jalabert , J. -L. Pichard