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We describe a method for obtaining the scattering matrix for nuclear or chemical reactions on a finite lattice. Aside from the preparation of the initial and final states as wave packets, the only other operation required is unitary time…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Evan Rule , Ionel Stetcu

The scattering problem can be implemented in a square-integrable basis via the so-called $J$-matrix method. While methods to compute the phase shift in the $J$-matrix approach are known, we introduce a novel formula in square-integrable…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Calvin W. Johnson , Bui Minh Loc , Austin Keller , Kenneth M. Nollett

MOLSCAT is a general-purpose program for quantum-mechanical calculations on nonreactive atom-atom, atom-molecule and molecule-molecule collisions. It constructs the coupled-channel equations of atomic and molecular scattering theory, and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Jeremy M. Hutson , C. Ruth Le Sueur

We present Decapodes, a diagrammatic tool for representing, composing, and solving partial differential equations. Decapodes provides an intuitive diagrammatic representation of the relationships between variables in a system of equations,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-01 Luke Morris , Andrew Baas , Jesus Arias , Maia Gatlin , Evan Patterson , James P. Fairbanks

The collision of two ultra-cold atoms results in a quantum-mechanical superposition of two outcomes: each atom continues without scattering and each atom scatters as a spherically outgoing wave with an s-wave phase shift. The magnitude of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Russell A. Hart , Xinye Xu , Ronald Legere , Kurt Gibble

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem to recover a compactly supported Schr{\"o}dinger potential given the differential scattering cross section, i.e. the modulus, but not the phase of the scattering amplitude. To compensate for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Alexey Agaltsov , Thorsten Hohage , Roman Novikov

The discrete energy-eigenvalues of two nucleons interacting with a finite-range nuclear force and confined to a harmonic potential are used to numerically reconstruct the free-space scattering phase shifts. The extracted phase shifts are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Thomas Luu , Martin Savage , Achim Schwenk , James P. Vary

In this article we present a method to compute the scattering states of holes in spherical bands in the strong spin-orbit coupling regime. More precisely, we calculate scattering phase shifts and amplitudes of holes induced by defects in a…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Bogdanski , H. Ouerdane

The adiabatic projection method is a general framework for studying scattering and reactions on the lattice. It provides a low-energy effective theory for clusters which becomes exact in the limit of large Euclidean projection time.…

Comparisons are made between results of calculations for intermediate energy nucleon-nucleus scattering for 12C, 16O, 40Ca, 90Zr, and 208Pb, using optical potentials obtained from global Dirac phenomenology and from a microscopic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. K. Deb , B. C. Clark , S. Hama , K. Amos , S. Karataglidis , E. D. Cooper

In the present paper we describe a simple black box algorithm for efficiently and accurately solving scattering problems related to the scattering of time-harmonic waves from radially-symmetric potentials in two dimensions. The method uses…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Jeremy Hoskins , Vladimir Rokhlin

Background: The study of np and pp scattering, central to understanding nuclear force, remains an optional topic in many undergraduate nuclear physics curriculum. Purpose: The main thrust of this paper is to study pp scattering using the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-05-02 Shikha Awasthi , Anil Khachi , O. S. K. S. Sastri

Recent work has shown that quantum computers can compute scattering probabilities in massive quantum field theories, with a run time that is polynomial in the number of particles, their energy, and the desired precision. Here we study a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Stephen P. Jordan , Hari Krovi , Keith S. M. Lee , John Preskill

In 2013, Clader, Jacobs, and Sprouse developed a quantum computing algorithm that solves electromagnetic scattering problems exponentially faster than the best known classical algorithm for that problem. We examine this quantum algorithm's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Edward Parker , Nicholas A. O'Donoughue , Alvin Moon , Nicolas M. Robles

Periodic surface structures are nowadays standard building blocks of optical devices. If such structures are illuminated by aperiodic time-harmonic incident waves as, e.g., Gaussian beams, the resulting surface scattering problem must be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Armin Lechleiter , Ruming Zhang

Fast classical processing is essential for most quantum fault-tolerance architectures. We introduce a sliding-window decoding scheme that provides fast classical processing for the surface code through parallelism. Our scheme divides the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-03 Xinyu Tan , Fang Zhang , Rui Chao , Yaoyun Shi , Jianxin Chen

Quantum computers are ideally set up to solve linear systems which are of a form similar to the Schrodinger/Dirac equation of quantum mechanics. In the framework of linear response theory, the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic…

The convergence problem for scattering states is studied in detail within the framework of the Algebraic Model, a representation of the Schrodinger equation in an L^2 basis. The dynamical equations of this model are reformulated featuring…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 V. S. Vasilevsky , F. Arickx

To overcome the fast oscillatory behavior of correlation functions for extracting scattering phase shift in real-time quantum simulations encountered in Ref.\cite{Guo:2026qkx}, we propose and test two solutions in the present work. One is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Peng Guo , Paul LeVan , Frank X. Lee , Yong Zhao

We present a new numerical method for accurate computations of solutions to (linear) one dimensional Schr\"odinger equations with periodic potentials. This is a prominent model in solid state physics where we also allow for perturbations by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-03 Zhongyi Huang , Shi Jin , Peter Markowich , Christof Sparber