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Based on the Sum-over-Paths approach of Richard Feynman, an integration method for calculating wave phase vectors is derived. The diffraction and interference patterns of various slit masks can be calculated from such phase vectors. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Josef Joerg

It is wellknown that the Feynman kernel for the free particle on the half-line can be expressed as a sum over classical paths if we take the contribution from the reflected path into account. The minus sign for the reflected path needs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-14 Seiji Sakoda

Employing tight-binding approximation we derive a transfer matrix formalism for one-dimensional single photon transport through a composite scattering center, which consists of parallel connected resonator optical waveguides. By solving the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Yu Jiang , M. Lozada-Cassou

The Fraunhofer diffraction of quantum particles from materials with sharp electron-density edges or symmetric bond structures is ubiquitous. In contrast, diffraction from atoms with characteristic asymptotically-diffused electron…

The interaction of a fast electron with a photonic crystal is studied by solving the Maxwell equations exactly for the external field provided by the electron in the presence of the crystal. The polarization currents and charges produced by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. A. Blanco , F. J. Garcia de Abajo

In this work, the simulation of optical photons is carried out in an antineutrino detector module consisting of a plastic scintillator connected to light guides and photomultipliers on both ends, which is considered to be used for remote…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-05-23 Mustafa Kandemir , Altan Cakir

As light travels through a disordered medium such as biological tissues, it undergoes multiple scattering events. This phenomenon is detrimental to in-depth optical microscopy, as it causes a drastic degradation of contrast, resolution and…

We re-examine scattering of photons near the Lyman-alpha resonance in the intergalactic medium (IGM). We first derive a general integral solution for the radiation field around resonance when spin diffusivity is ignored. Our solution shows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Steven Furlanetto , Jonathan R. Pritchard

We revisit the kinematics of Compton Scattering (electron-photon interactions producing electrons and photons in the exit channel) covering the full range of energy/momenta distribution between the two colliding particles, with a dedicated…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-05-02 Luca Serafini , Vittoria Petrillo

In the present study, we show calculation of nonlinear Compton scattering with circularly polarized photons in a cylindrical coordinate using Feynman diagram to calculate photon vortex generation in intermediate states considering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-11 Tomoyuki Maruyama , Takehito Hayakawa , Ryoichi Hajima , Toshitaka Kajino , Myung-Ki Cheoun

We examine quantum interference effects due to absorption and emission from multiple atoms coupled to a waveguide and highlight the modifications they entail in regards to single-photon transport properties. A prominent upshot of these…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-17 Debsuvra Mukhopadhyay , Girish S. Agarwal

Gravitational scattering of the electromagnetic field from a heavy scalar field provides a fundamental testbed for understanding the deflection of light by massive bodies. In many approaches based on effective field theory, the calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-19 Yihan Ma , Ding-fang Zeng

A forward model is presented to an inverse scattering problem that arises in the application of reflective Fourier ptychographic microscopy. The model allows us to determine the 3D distributions of refractive index for weakly scattering…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-25 Shuhe Zhang , Tos Berendschot , Shuo Zhang

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

Established x-ray diffraction methods allow for high-resolution structure determination of crystals, crystallized protein structures or even single molecules. While these techniques rely on coherent scattering, incoherent processes like…

Scattering of light in complex media scrambles optical wavefronts and breaks the principles of conventional imaging methods. For decades, researchers have endeavored to conquer the problem by inventing approaches such as adaptive optics,…

Wave-particle duality finds a natural application for electrons or light propagating in disordered media where coherent corrections to transport are given by two-wave interference. For scatterers with internal degrees of freedom, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Christian Miniatura , Cord A. Müller , Yin Lu , Guangquan Wang , Berthold-Georg Englert

Electron optics deals with condensed matter platforms for manipulating and guiding electron beams with high efficiency and robustness. Common devices rely on the spatial confinement of the electrons into one-dimensional channels. Recently,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Yuhao Zhao , Anina Leuch , Oded Zilberberg , Antonio Štrkalj

The paper considers the process of Thomson scattering of coherent diffraction radiation (CDR) produced by the preceding bunch of the accelerator on one of the following bunches. It is shown that the yield of scattered hard photons is…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 A. P. Potylitsin

Work is reported on finite integral representations for 2-loop massive 2-, 3- and 4-point functions, using orthogonal and parallel space variables. It is shown that this can be utilized to cover particles with arbitrary spin (tensor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Dirk Kreimer