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We construct a path distribution representing the kinetic part of the Feynman path integral at discrete times similar to that defined by Thomas [1], but on a Hilbert space of paths rather than a nuclear sequence space. We also consider…

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The ability to image through turbid media such as organic tissues, is a highly attractive prospect for biological and medical imaging. This is challenging however, due to the highly scattering properties of tissues which scramble the image…

Optics · Physics 2020-09-25 Jack Radford , Ashley Lyons , Francesco Tonolini , Daniele Faccio

We consider emission of a photon by an electron in the field of a strong laser wave. Polarization effects in this process are important for a number of physical problems. We discuss a probability of this process for circularly polarized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Yu. Ivanov , G. L. Kotkin , V. G. Serbo

Score-based diffusion models have proven effective in image generation and have gained widespread usage; however, the underlying factors contributing to the performance disparity between stochastic and deterministic (i.e., the probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuji Hirono , Akinori Tanaka , Kenji Fukushima

We study by means of experiments and Monte Carlo simulations, the scattering of light in random media, to determine the distance upto which photons travel along almost undeviated paths within a scattering medium, and are therefore capable…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 Venkatesh Gopal , Sushil Mujumdar , Hema Ramachandran , A. K. Sood

The second-order temporal interference of classical and nonclassical light at an asymmetrical beam splitter is discussed based on two-photon interference in Feynman's path integral theory. The visibility of the second-order interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-01 Jianbin Liu , Jingjing Wang , Zhuo Xu

In this paper we study photon emission in the interaction of the laser beam with an under-dense target and the attached reflecting plasma mirror. Photons are emitted due to the inverse Compton scattering when accelerated electrons interact…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 M. Jirka , O. Klimo , Y. J. Gu , S. Weber

It is shown how the pre-exponential factor of the Feynman propagator for a large class of potentials can be computed using contour integrals. This is of direct relevance in the context of tunnelling processes in quantum theories. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Klaus Kirsten , Paul Loya

In this paper, an experiment of quantum diffraction of position-momentum entangled photons from a straight sharp edge is presented. Path of a single photon of an entangled pair is partially blocked by a sharp edge whereas the other photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Samridhi Gambhir , Mandip Singh

X-ray-induced photoemission in materials research is commonly acknowledged as a method with a probing depth limited by the escape depth of the photoelectrons. This general statement should be complemented with exceptions arising from the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-05-10 Stanislav Stoupin , Bing Shi , Mikhail Zhernenkov

We investigate theoretically the photoelectron momentum distribution (PMD) of the ionized atoms irradiated by a linearly polarized intense laser, focusing on the holography interference patterns in PMD that carry important information of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 L. G. Liao , Q. Z. Xia , J. Cai , J. Liu

We provide a compendium of the quantum mechanical equations for photon emission rates, photon absorption cross sections, and photon scattering cross sections. For each case, the different equations that apply for discrete or continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Rainer Dick

We provide a complete and exact quantum description of coherent light scattering in a one-dimensional multi-mode transmission line coupled to a two-level emitter. Using recently developed scattering approach we discuss transmission…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-07 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Vladimir Gritsev

There is widespread interest in estimating the fluorescence properties of natural materials in an image. However, the separation between reflected and fluoresced components is difficult, because it is impossible to distinguish reflected and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-16 Henryk Blasinski , Joyce Farrell , Brian Wandell

High-brightness electron beams with low energy spread at existing and future x-ray free-electron lasers are affected by various collective beam self-interactions and microbunching instabilities. The corresponding coherent optical radiation…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Christopher Behrens , Christopher Gerth , Gero Kube , Bernhard Schmidt , Stephan Wesch , Minjie Yan

Propagation and tunneling of light through photonic barriers formed by thin dielectric films with continuous curvilinear distributions of dielectric susceptibility across the film, are considered. Giant heterogeneity-induced dispersion of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexandr B. Shvartsburg , Guillaume Petite

For distinguishable particles it is well known that Brownian motion and a Feynman-Kac functional can be used to calculate the path integral (for imaginary times) for a general class of scalar potentials. In order to treat identical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 L. F. Lemmens , F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese

1-loop quantum corrections are shown to induce large effects on the refraction index $n$ inside a graphene strip in the presence of an external magnetic field $B$ orthogonal to it. To this purpose, we use the tools of Quantum Field Theory…

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We discuss path integrals for quantum mechanics with a potential which is a perturbation of the upside-down oscillator. We express the path integral (in the real time) by the Wiener measure. We obtain the Feynman integral for perturbations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-23 Z. Haba

We establish the extent to which photons and dileptons are penetrating probes of hot hadronic matter by computing mean free paths. Absorption is indeed negligible for real photons as mean free paths are roughly tenths of \AAngstr\"oms.…

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