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Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Peijun Li , Xiaokai Yuan

When a wave, such as sound or light, scatters within a densely packed particulate, it can be rescattered many times between the particles, which is called multiple scattering. Multiple scattering can be unavoidable when: trying to use sound…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 K. K. Napal , P. S. Piva , A. L. Gower

Monte-Carlo methods for zero energy quantum scattering are developed. Starting from path integral representations for scattering observables, we present results of numerical calculations for potential scattering and scattering off a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Stefan Lenz , Hubertus Mall

Laser photons carrying non-zero orbital angular momentum are known and exploited during the last twenty years. Recently it has been demonstrated experimentally that such (twisted) electrons can be produced and even focused to a subnanometer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-15 D. V. Karlovets , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

We describe a new method to treat low-energy scattering problems in few-nucleon systems, and we apply it to the five-body case of neutron-alpha scattering. The method allows precise calculations of low-lying resonances and their widths. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Kenneth M. Nollett , Steven C. Pieper , R. B. Wiringa , J. Carlson , G. M. Hale

In this work, we develop a fast and accurate method for the scattering of flexural-gravity waves by a thin plate of varying thickness overlying a fluid of infinite depth. This problem commonly arises in the study of sea ice and ice shelves,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-03 Travis Askham , Jeremy G. Hoskins , Peter Nekrasov , Manas Rachh

A set of semi-analytical techniques based on Fourier analysis is used to solve wave scattering problems in variously shaped waveguides with varying normal admittance boundary conditions. Key components are newly developed conformal mapping…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 Anders Andersson , Borje Nilsson , Thomas Biro

An open source software package for simulating thermal neutron propagation in geometry is presented. In this system, neutron propagation can be treated by either the particle transport method or the ray-tracing method. Supported by an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Zi-Yi Pan , Ni Yang , Ming Tang , Peixun Shen , Xiao-Xiao Cai

We propose an accurate variational Monte Carlo method applicable in the presence of the strong spin-orbit interaction. Our variational wave functions consist of generalized Pfaffian-Slater wave functions that involve mixtures of singlet and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-11-10 Moyuru Kurita , Youhei Yamaji , Satoshi Morita , Masatoshi Imada

A fast and simple Monte Carlo program is presented that simulates single Bremsstrahlung in Bhabha scattering, e+e- --> e+e-gamma, without constraints on scattering angles. This allows the study of this process at arbitrarily small, or even…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Kleiss , H. Burkhardt

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

Waveguide and resonant properties of diffractive structures are often explained through the complex poles of their scattering matrices. Numerical methods for calculating poles of the scattering matrix with applications in grating theory are…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-01-24 Dmitry A. Bykov , Leonid L. Doskolovich

We propose a novel approach for solving the scattering of light onto a two-level atom coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide. We first express the physical quantity of interest in terms of Feynman diagrams and treat the atom as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-22 Alexandre Roulet , Valerio Scarani

We propose algorithms for solving high-dimensional Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) that combine a probabilistic interpretation of PDEs, through Feynman-Kac representation, with sparse interpolation. Monte-Carlo methods and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-25 Marie Billaud-Friess , Arthur Macherey , Anthony Nouy , Clémentine Prieur

Harmonic generation in the scattered fields produced by a dielectric sphere coated with a time-varying conductive shell is studied using a Mie theory approach hybridized with conversion matrix methods. Analytic results are derived for plane…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kurt Schab , Bradley Shirley , K. C. Kerby-Patel

Rigorous quantum dynamics calculations provide essential insights into complex scattering phenomena across atomic and molecular physics, chemical reaction dynamics, and astrochemistry. However, the application of the gold-standard quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Hubert J. Jóźwiak , Md Muktadir Rahman , Timur V. Tscherbul

The scattering of waves by obstacles in a 2D setting is considered, in particular the computation of the scattered field via the collocation or the least-squares methods. In the case of multiple scattering by smooth obstacles, we prove that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-15 Gilles Chardon

The wave properties of complex scattering systems that are large compared to the wavelength, and show chaos in the classical limit, are extremely sensitive to system details. A solution to the wave equation for a specific configuration can…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-12-24 Shukai Ma , Bo Xiao , Ron Hong , Bisrat Addissie , Zachary Drikas , Thomas Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven Anlage

Nuclear physics seeks to describe both bound and unbound states within a unified predictive framework. While coordinate-space Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods have successfully computed bound states for systems with $A \leq 12$, their…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-27 Abraham R. Flores , Kenneth M. Nollett , Maria Piarulli

The investigation into the scattering of plane waves by a periodic array of parallel cylinders utilizes the method of cylindrical wave decomposition, thereby reducing the problem complexity to a series of linear algebraic equations. This…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 A. S. Bereza , A. E. Chernyavsky , S. V. Perminov , D. A. Shapiro