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A previous paper [J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 50, 215302 (2017)] showed that partial wave analysis becomes applicable to nonrelativistic Coulomb scattering if wavepackets are used. The scattering geometry considered was special: that of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-07 Scott E. Hoffmann

The connection between the problem of scattering a particle on a one-dimensional $\delta$-potential with the "Einstein's boxes" thought experiment is shown. In both cases, the validity of the superposition principle is limited by Einstein's…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 N. L. Chuprikov

Using a density matrix description in space we study the evolution of wavepackets in a fluctuating space-time background. We assume that space-time fluctuations manifest as classical fluctuations of the metric. From the non-relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 E. Göklü , C. Lämmerzahl , A. Camacho , A. Macias

Space-time is one of the most essential, yet most mysterious concepts in physics. In quantum mechanics it is common to understand time as a marker of instances of evolution and define states around all the space but at one time; while in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Tian Zhang , Oscar Dahlsten , Vlatko Vedral

We demonstrate the interest of combining Finite Element calculations with the Vector Partial Wave formulation (used in T-matrix and Mie theory) in order to characterize the electromagnetic scattering properties of isolated individual…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Guillaume Demésy , Brian Stout , Jean-Claude Auger

The scattering of wave packets from a single slit and a double slit with the Schr\"odinger equation, is studied numerically and theoretically. The phenomenon of diffraction of wave packets in space and time in the backward region,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Kälbermann

Many synthetic quantum systems allow particles to have dispersion relations that are neither linear nor quadratic functions. Here, we explore single-particle scattering in general spatial dimension $D\geq 1$ when the density of states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Yidan Wang , Michael J. Gullans , Xuesen Na , Seth Whitsitt , Alexey V. Gorshkov

The general formulas to calculate the phase shifts of wave function of a particle scattering on a target formed by a pair of non-identical zero-range potentials are derived. It is shown that at asymptotically great distances from the target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-20 A. S. Baltenkov , I. Woiciechowski

A large number of powerful, high-quality, and open-source simulation packages exist to efficiently perform molecular dynamics simulations, and their prevalence has greatly accelerated discoveries across a wide range of scientific domains.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-01 Toler H. Webb , Daniel M. Sussman

We describe a quantum limit to measurement of classical spacetimes. Specifically, we formulate a quantum Cramer-Rao lower bound for estimating the single parameter in any one-parameter family of spacetime metrics. We employ the locally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 T. G. Downes , J. R. van Meter , E. Knill , G. J. Milburn , C. M. Caves

We present a general formulation for ray-tracing calculations in curved space-time. The formulation takes full account of relativistic effects in the photon transport and the relative motions of the emitters and the light-of-sight absorbing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Steven V. Fuerst , Kinwah Wu

Field theories on the plane wave background are considered. We discuss that for such field theories one can only form 1+1 dimensional freely propagating wave packets. We analyze tree level four point functions of scalar field theory as well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Dongsu Bak , Mohammad M. Sheikh-Jabbari

Poyiadjis et al. (2011) show how particle methods can be used to estimate both the score and the observed information matrix for state space models. These methods either suffer from a computational cost that is quadratic in the number of…

Computation · Statistics 2015-09-07 Christopher Nemeth , Paul Fearnhead , Lyudmila Mihaylova

Studying high-energy collisions of composite particles, such as hadrons and nuclei, is an outstanding goal for quantum simulators. However, preparation of hadronic wave packets has posed a significant challenge, due to the complexity of…

Scattering is an important phenomenon which is observed in systems ranging from the micro- to macroscale. In the context of nuclear reaction theory the Heidelberg approach was proposed and later demonstrated to be applicable to many chaotic…

Motivated by recently developed techniques making it possible to compute Casimir energies for any object whose scattering S-matrix (or, equivalently, T-matrix) is available, we develop a variable phase method to compute the S-matrix for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 Aden Forrow , Noah Graham

Because the de Broglie wavelength of ultracold molecules is very large, the cross sections for collisions of molecules at ultracold temperatures are always computed by the time-independent quantum scattering approach. Here, we report the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 Jiayu Huang , DongHui Zhang , Roman V. Krems

We introduce an original approach to geometric calculus in which we define derivatives and integrals on functions which depend on extended bodies in space--that is, paths, surfaces, and volumes etc. Though this theory remains to be fully…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Theodore G. Erler

In this paper we generalise our previous results [1] concerning scattering on the exterior of collapsing dust clouds to the charged case, including in particular the extremal case. We analyse the energy boundedness of solutions $\phi$ to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-07 Frederick Alford

We demonstrate that wavelet bases have features that make them advantageous for solving momentum-space scattering integral equations. Using the example of two nucleons interacting with the Malfliet-Tjon V interaction, we show it is possible…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Kessler , G. L. Payne , W. N. Polyzou