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The spectral and scattering theory is investigated for a generalization, to scattering metrics on two-dimensional compact manifolds with boundary, of the class of smooth potentials on the Euclidean plane which are homogeneous of degree zero…

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Wave propagation in complex media is a universal problem spanning optics, acoustics, mechanics, and condensed matter physics. While disorder usually causes strong scattering, recent theory predicts that a special class of correlated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-10 Angélique Campaniello , Rémi Carminati , Marcel Filoche , Emmanuel Fort

In the present paper we discuss stationary scattering theory for repulsive Hamiltonians. We show the existence and completeness of stationary wave operators and unitarity of the scattering matrix. Moreover we completely characterize…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Kyohei Itakura

We formulate a generalized scattering field theory a la Buttiker describing particles transport in magnetic/superconducting heterostructures. The proposed formalism, characterized by a four- component spinorial wavefunction of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 F. Romeo , R. Citro

We present a theoretical approach to describe the 2D transport properties of the surfaces of three dimensional topological insulators (3DTIs) including disorder and phonon scattering effects. The method that we present is able to take into…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Qiuzi Li , E. Rossi , S. Das Sarma

Within the scattering matrix approach to electronic transport, the scattering and transport properties of tight-binding random graphs are analyzed. In particular, we compute the scattering matrix elements, the transmission, the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-10-09 A. M. Martínez-Argüello , K. B. Hidalgo-Castro , J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez

The statistical scattering properties of wave transport in disordered waveguides are derived perturbatively within the transition matrix formalism. The limiting macroscopic statistic of the wave transport, emerges as a consequence of a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-11-26 M. Yépez , J. J. Sáenz

In this paper, we introduce an alternative representation of the electromagnetic field scattered from a homogeneous sphere coated with a homogeneous layer of uniform thickness. Specifically, we expand the scattered field using a set of…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Mariano Pascale , Giovanni Miano , Carlo Forestiere

We have developed a scattering matrix approach to coherent transport through an adiabatically driven conductor based on photon-assisted processes. To describe the energy exchange with the pumping fields we expand the Floquet scattering…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 M. Buttiker , M. Moskalets

The scattering theory of quantum transport relates transport properties of disordered mesoscopic conductors to their transfer matrix $\bbox{T}$. We introduce a novel approach to the statistics of transport quantities which expresses the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Endesfelder

We study the scattering theory of delicate topological insulators (TIs), which are novel topological phases beyond the paradigm of the tenfold way, topological quantum chemistry, and the symmetry indicator method. We demonstrate that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Penghao Zhu , Jiho Noh , Yingkai Liu , Taylor L. Hughes

Based on our previous study [IS2] we develop fully the stationary scattering theory for the Schrodinger operator on a manifold possessing an escape function. A particular class of examples are manifolds with Euclidean and/or hyperbolic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 K. Ito , E. Skibsted

The outstanding transport properties expected at the edge of two-dimensional time-reversal invariant topological insulators have proven to be challenging to realize experimentally, and have so far only been demonstrated in very short…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Luca Vannucci , Thomas Olsen , Kristian S. Thygesen

A version of scattering theory that was developed many years ago to treat nuclear scattering processes, has provided a powerful tool to study universality in scattering processes involving open quantum systems with underlying classically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 L. E. Reichl , G. Akguc

The scattering matrix approach to phase-coherent transport is generalized to nonlinear ac-transport. In photon-assisted electron transport it is often only the dc-component of the current that is of experimental interest. But ac-currents at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Morten Holm Pedersen , Markus Buttiker

In various situations where wave transport is preeminent, like in wireless communication, a strong established transmission is present in a complex scattering environment. We develop a novel approach to describe emerging fluctuations, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-08 Dmitry V. Savin , Martin Richter , Ulrich Kuhl , Olivier Legrand , Fabrice Mortessagne

We develop a scattering theory to investigate the multi-photon transmission in a one-dimensional waveguide in the presence of quantum emitters. It is based on a path integral formalism, uses displacement transformations, and does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-25 Tao Shi , Darrick E. Chang , J. Ignacio Cirac

We establish a scattering-state theory for open one-dimensional Floquet lattices based on a frequency-domain transfer-matrix formulation. For real quasienergy, the conjugate-symplectic structure of the transfer matrix separates bulk…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Ren Zhang , Xiao-Yu Ouyang , Xu-Dong Dai , Xi Dai

Scattering at interluminal modulation interfaces, where a sharp space-time perturbation moves at a velocity lying between the wave velocities of the two surrounding media, has remained an open problem for decades. This regime is somewhat…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Zhiyu Li , Klaas De Kinder , Xikui Ma , Christophe Caloz

We construct a scattering theory for harmonic one-forms on Riemann surfaces, obtained from boundary value problems through systems of curves and the jump problem. We obtain an explicit expression for the scattering matrix in terms of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-03 Eric Schippers , Wolfgang Staubach