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The two-body Coulomb scattering problem is solved using the standard complex scaling method. The explicit enforcement of the scattering boundary condition is avoided. Splitting of the scattering wave function based on the Coulomb modified…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 I. Hornyak , A. T. Kruppa

In this paper, we consider acoustic or electromagnetic scattering in two dimensions from an infinite three-layer medium with thousands of wavelength-size dielectric particles embedded in the middle layer. Such geometries are typical of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jun Lai , Motoki Kobayashi , Leslie Greengard

This paper concerns the reconstruction of the scattering coefficient in a two-dimensional transport equation from angularly averaged measurements when the probing source is isotropic and time-harmonic. This is a practical setting in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-17 Guillaume Bal , Francois Monard

The Hyperspherical Harmonics (HH) method is one of the most accurate techniques to solve the quantum mechanical problem for nuclear systems with $A\le 4$. In particular, by applying the Rayleigh-Ritz or Kohn variational principle, both…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-12-23 L. E. Marcucci , J. Dohet-Eraly , L. Girlanda , A. Gnech , A. Kievsky , M. Viviani

An algorithm for sequential calculation of non-isotropic matrix elements of the collision integral which are necessary for the solution of the non-linear Boltzmann equation by moment method is proposed. Isotropic matrix elements that we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-04-20 I. A. Ender , L. A. Bakaleinikov , E. Yu. Flegontova , A. B. Gerasimenko

The coherent control of scattering processes is considered, with electron impact dissociation of H$_2^+$ used as an example. The physical mechanism underlying coherently controlled stationary state scattering is exposed by analyzing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Spanner , Paul Brumer

We present algorithms for solving spatially nonlocal diffusion models on the unit sphere with spectral accuracy in space. Our algorithms are based on the diagonalizability of nonlocal diffusion operators in the basis of spherical harmonics,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Richard Mikael Slevinsky , Hadrien Montanelli , Qiang Du

Formulas are derived for solutions of many-body wave scattering problems by small particles in the case of acoustically soft, hard, and impedance particles embedded in an inhomogeneous medium. The limiting case is considered, when the size…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Alexander G. Ramm

A solution to the linear Boltzmann equation satisfies an energy bound, which reflects a natural fact: The energy of particles in a finite volume is bounded in time by the energy of particles initially occupying the volume augmented by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Jonas Bünger , Neeraj Sarna , Manuel Torrilhon

In order to choose a numerical method for solving the time dependent equations of radiative transport, we obtain an exact solution for the time dependent radiation field in a one dimensional infinite medium with monochromatic, isotropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. I. Nagirner , S. L. Kirusheva

Stationary scattering of TE and TM waves propagating in an isotropic medium with planar symmetry is described by Bergmann's equation in one dimension. This is a generalization of Helmholtz equation which allows for developing transfer…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-21 Farhang Loran , Ali Mostafazadeh , Cem Yetişmişoğlu

Raman spectroscopy uses light scattering to extract information on low-energy excitations of solids. The Raman process is described by diagrams which are fourth order in the light-matter interaction, and in particular the resonant…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-01-30 Philipp Werner , Martin Eckstein , Naoto Tsuji

Order parameters based on spherical harmonics and Fourier coefficients already play a significant role in condensed matter research in the context of systems of spherical or point particles. Here, we extend these types of order parameter to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-22 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer

This report discusses two new ideas for using perturbation methods to solve the time-independent Schr\"odinger equation. The first concept begins with rewriting the perturbation equations in a form that is closely related to matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Gerald I. Kerley

Scattering by (a) a single composite scatterer consisting of a concentric arrangement of an outer N-slit rigid cylinder and an inner cylinder which is either rigid or in the form of a thin elastic shell and (b) by a finite periodic array of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-11 Anton Krynkin , Olga Umnova , Alvin Y. B. Chong , Shahram Taherzadeh , Keith Attenborough

In this study a spatio-temporal approach for the solution of the time-dependent Boltzmann (transport) equation is derived. Finding the exact solution using the Boltzmann equation for the general case is generally an open problem and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-08-26 Re'em Harel , Stanislav Burov , Shay I. Heizler

We consider the problem of optical tomographic imaging in the mesoscopic regime where the photon mean free path is of order of the system size. Within the accuracy of the single-scattering approximation to the radiative transport equation,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Lucia Florescu , John C. Schotland , Vadim A. Markel

We introduce a novel linear transport equation that models the evolution of a one-particle distribution subject to free transport and two distinct scattering mechanisms: one affecting the particle's speed and the other its direction. These…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Martina Conte , Nadia Loy

We discuss the electromagnetic scattering and radiation problems of multilayered spheres, reviewing the history of the Lorentz-Mie theory and the numerical stability issues encountered in handling multilayered spheres. By combining…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Jianing Zhang

A four-way coupling scheme for the direct numerical simulation of particle-laden flows is developed and analyzed. It employs a novel adaptive multi-relaxation time lattice Boltzmann method to simulate the fluid phase efficiently. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Rettinger , Ulrich Rüde